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February 03, 2006
This Week in Photoshop
... Adobe announced that they will not be releasing Universal Binary versions of current Creative Suite applications, which includes Photoshop and Bridge. Much has been made of this fact, but I think everyone is overlooking a few things, including the big hint they dropped about release cycles.
Adobe releases new versions every 18-24 months. Photoshop CS2 was released in April 2005. That would put the earliest release in Q3 2006, which is not so far off! Especially when you consider that there still isn't a Pro desktop Mac to run Universal Photoshop.
My guess is that we'll see Photoshop CS3 (or whatever they decide to call it) at the same time we see a pro-level mactel desktop-- most likely in September (can someone remind me what the relevant Apple event is in September? I know there is one...), or even a pre-release announcement at WWDC in April. Apple will probably announce the MacTowerPro (man, they still need to work on those names) at WWDC, but not ship it for a while, except maybe to developers, and Adobe could probably do the same thing.
In fact, this makes a lot of sense, seeing as so many plugins will have to be rewritten for Intel and CS3, so WWDC is exactly the kind of venue to make such an annoucement. Maybe they'll do a CS3 Developer Preview?
That's how I see it going down...
Posted by Joshwa at February 3, 2006 08:16 PM