Historically, Apple and Adobe have had issues in the past regarding Adobe’s continual use of Flash. Jobs said back in April (regarding Apple’s refusal to incorporate flash on the iPhone) that “[i]f developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features.” So Apple’s refusal to “wait around” for Adobe to upgrade ultimately leads to this type of incompatibility phenomenon.
Some of the incompatibility issues with Adobe software are:
-Adobe Reader plug-in and Acrobat do not run with Safari 5.1
-Applications behave inconsistently unless Java Runtime is installed manually
-Color picker in Dreamweaver CS4 returns incorrect sample color
-Droplets in Photoshop CS3, CS4, and CS5 do not work
-No support for Rosetta with Lion
-Windows Live Mesh for Mac does not work altogether
So…where is the miscommunication here? You would think with two renowned companies that are a lot of the times in juxtaposed in use with each other, glitches would have been already predetermined. Well, a lot of it has to do with this rocky, “frenemy” history between the two companies. After all, Jobs did call Adobe “lazy,” last year at a town hall meeting.
Solutions to the incompatibilities are in store, but Adobe has given no official timeline of when they expect to start recoding their software or what software they are actually going to make compatible with Lion. They did, however, acknowledge the upgrades they must address.
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