I’ve been so busy that I’ve not had a chance to blog in a wee while. Or so it seems.
I find myself presented with not only a dentist appointment (*groan*) but also three exams. Sure, they’re just multiple choice exams but they’re for a certification – one that means something. So it’s not really like the others I’ve done in the past which were as much “for fun” as anything else.
Anyway – the big hoopla at the moment is the rumour that Adobe intends to release a public beta of CS3 on the 15th. It’s unlikely because when has Adobe ever released anything 2 quarters earlier than their announcement date, but there you have it. They must be hurting from the reports of Universal Quark Xpress.
As a bloke on the Nutters mailing list put it –
“it won’t be just a beta, it’ll be in production the very next day. I can just hear the sounds of a million Mac techs screaming!”
and that’s a very valid point. I know quite a few designers who have migrated to Intel Macs already and are just waiting for the release of CS3 and taking plenty of opportunity to have a wee moan about the state of Rosetta on the Intel Macs. Rosetta is fabulous but some of these guys are expecting it to be native. Unrealistic I know – but there’s no telling some people!
So the moment this beta hits the streets there will be plagues of print bureaus (most of them still with Mac OS 9 remember?) complaining that they can’t open these new file formats. Or something. Or if there are unsupported features? Where do you get support for a beta? Answer: you don’t!
Beta seems to be the fashion now. Beta has always meant “unfinished” but these days it’s seen as a “bonus”, a “marketing flash”, a “corporate gift”.