No Carbon-64

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Adobe's announced that the upcoming Photoshop will be available in 64 bit, but only on Windows.* Why?* Because Apple surprised them by dropping Carbon for the 64 bit OS.* http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/photoshop_lr_64.html

 

I really don't get this move by Apple.* I've never developed for the Mac, but if I understand things correctly, Cocoa is an Objective-C API and not accessible from more traditional languages such as C and C++.* This means Apple is effectively locking out cross platform GUI applications, correct?* Does that make sense to anyone else?

 

Another interesting angle to this whole thing comes from a response by John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/64000_question.* The response is mostly fair, which if you read Daring Fireball you probably understand why this surprised me.* The guy is opinionated and his typical posts consist of calling people with different opinions names that wouldn't get by the C9 filters.

 

So why is that post interesting?* Because he takes a swipe at Microsoft, and shows his own ignorance while doing so.

 

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John Gruber wrote:

It’s also the case that unlike Leopard, which is a single OS that can simultaneously run both 32- and 64-bit apps natively, Windows Vista comes in wholly separate 32- and 64-bit versions.

 

 

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