Why there are no Adobe universal binaries

Geeks and designers alike have been grumbling about the fact that Adobe hasn't released, and won't be releasing (PDF) universal binaries of the current versions of their apps, in particular Photoshop, and Adobe's answers to the cries of "Why?" have so far been pretty unsatisfactory. So what's really going on? Over at Adobe's Photoshop blog (who knew they had blogs?), engineer Scott Byers explains. Basically, porting a huge legacy app like Photoshop isn't just a recompile like Steve Jobs said, and much of the problem lies in the fact that XCode, Apple's development environment, just isn't as mature as the tools Adobe's engineers are used to. Of course, Byers makes it sound a lot more convincing than that, so you should just head over to the Photoshop blog and hear it from him.

[Via TUAW]

Tags: adobe, apple, commercial, photoshop, Scott Byers, ub, xcode