Is Adobe committed to supporting the Mac platform in the future?

1. Sounds like your IT department just wants you all to change out from Mac in order to simplify their lives. Seen it happen where I used to work. Supporting Mac and PC is a pain for them, so they try to get the creatives to give up their Macs because most IT guys dont understand Mac.

2. I have a friend at Adobe. And according to her, not only are they planning to continue supporting Mac, they even have a few apps in the works that are only for Mac at the moment. Once they launch on Mac, they will start development over to PC. Opposite of normal, which is awesome for once for Mac to get something first!

chrisd9955579  wrote I'm looking for evidence that Adobe is committed to continued development of Creative Cloud for the Mac platform.

I have no doubt that as long as Apple makes top PCs and laptops that Adobe stays committed to the Mac platform. How can you provide evidence against rumors that are rumors only.

chrisd9955579  wrote Our IT department says they have heard at conferences that Adobe may not be supporting the Mac platform in the future. Does anyone know if that has any truth to it?

Well, I know how that works. Corner them! Ask them what conferences spread those rumors. Apple has a nice clientèle and quite a lot of them are in the graphics art business and prepress business.

To be honest, none can for sure say what the world will be in 5 years, but I'm sure that Adobe will still support the Mac. I have no numbers but when talking to creatives, most of them prefer the Mac.

chrisd9955579  wrote my department is the only department on Macs. Our IT department says they have heard at conferences that Adobe may not be supporting the Mac platform in the future.

I'm old enough to remember when Adobe made software for Apple computers only.  

Q: Why would they abandon Mac users at this late date? 

A: They wouldn't.

I agree with John.  I think you're being hoodwinked by somebody in your IT dept who would prefer it if everyone used the same platform.

Our IT department says they have heard at conferences that Adobe may not be supporting the Mac platform in the future.

Your IT department seems susceptible to giving credence to unfounded rumours with no evidence to support such an assertion.

The onus should be on them to seek more information. If something like that had been mentioned by Adobe at a conference it would be all over the web immediately.

Seems irresponsible to take such baseless rumours back to your company without evidence - unless there's a pro-Windows agenda afoot - especially if your Mac department is in the minority surrounded by an ocean of Windows users.

chrisd9955579  wrote Our IT department says they have heard at conferences that Adobe may not be supporting the Mac platform in the future.

Hi Chris,

Which conferences? Can you tell us that? It’s not something I have heard.

The conferences I go to are Adobe MAX and Creative Pro. Whenever a room is asked who is on Mac and who is on Windows, it’s always a majority of Macs. All of the labs at Adobe MAX are on Macs.

We don’t speak for Adobe as we are volunteers, but I strongly suspect that whoever said that at whatever conference also was not speaking on behalf of Adobe either.

~ Jane

that seems highly unlikely because adobe's investing quite a bit in converting all parts of its programs to 64 bit in anticipation of the os 10.15 which will support 64 bit only.