thomas fitzgerald.net

From Macworld.com:

Adobe’s flagship product, Photoshop, will become a 64-bit application in the next major revision to the company’s bundle of creative pro applications, Creative Suite 4. However, the 64-bit version will only be available to Windows users because of a change Apple made at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2007.

The good news is that Adobe will make a 64-bit version for the Mac in the future.

“We can reassure people that literally from the day we found out Carbon 64-bit was cancelled, we have been figuring out what we need to do to get there,” John Nack, senior product manager for Adobe Photoshop, told Macworld

Another year, another transition. It probably won’t make that much difference for the majority of users, but it’s still a pain. It’s all too easy to blame Adobe in this matter but certainly Apple deserves a good kick up the preverbal for changing it’s mind over carbon 64 as well, although I’m sure it was with good reason. Then again, you could argue that when Adobe were transitioning to intel they would have migrated to cocoa as well.
I suppose the upside is that the final version will have a more modern code base than the legacy that is inherent in Photoshop now.
[Read Macworld | Photoshop CS4 to be 64-bit for Windows, but not Mac]