Adobe won't support CS3 on Snow Leopard - UPDATED

Adobe use their quasi-desktop-publishing-monopoly to force users to upgrade relatively recent software for a very high price almost every year... Everytime a new version is released, the whole industry is forced to upgrade because of bad up/down compatibility...

It seems now it didn't work out well with CS4... many users got sick of it and stayed with CS3. So they try to force their users to upgrade via snow leopard incompatibility.

They still don't have 64bit programs and the apps are still in carbon. I hate to have to give Adobe any money!

And I thought microsoft was evil...

The list of 10.6-compatible software at this site (http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/) suggests that both CS3 and CS2 should run under Snow Leopard

Now that's shocking!! Seems like there is no good relationship between Apple and Adobe!
I understand Adobe wants us to purchase CS4, but CS3 wasn't exaclty cheap and I bet the installer base is still quite big and Snow Leopard isn't that much of a revolution I guess.
So why no word on compatibilty?

I really don't understand. This is just another reason that makes me think SL was rushed to market and the launch is already a mess! (compatibility, features)

Snow Leopard has already become the worst launch in Apple's history, in my opinon (even worse than MobileMe).
I hope the software is at least better than the campaign they are (are not) making.

I guess Snow Leopard had to come to market early because it contains some stuff related to iLife, Aperture, iWork, maybe new Mac models and the Tablet. That rush could only be explained if Snow Leopard was needed for some other major product and hence a delay could have had a negative impact on some other products (like iTunes 9)

I'm still running CS1, I found no need to upgrade passed that, I guess I'll have to test it for them. I'll just Super Duper the drive before going Snow Leopard, if it doesn't work, no harm, I'll just restore the drive. I can't believe they don't even bother testing it... DO they know if Windows 7 will work either, I mean it isn't like you can just download the Release Candidate or anything....oh, wait.

Adobe is pricing themselves right out of the market. Their indesign app is terrible compared to Quark. The big news a few years ago was how InDesign was going to replace Quark as the desktop publishing SW…hasn't happened.

No more upgrades for me on PS or Illustrator.

Adobe told me that CS2 would not run on my new Intel iMac. I didn't believe them. Bought my Mac, installed CS2, and it runs okay, although it does crash occasionally.

For $100, I might upgrade the suite to CS4. For $500, they can pound sand. I think my first version of Illustrator was 3. I am a long-time Adobe customer.

They have no respect for their customers, and no sense of what compromises a fair exchange.

Good God when will someone come out with a reasonable alternative to Photoshop. Apple? Aperture is crippled, slow and counterintuitive. Come on Apple, you know you can do it. Forget all the cataloging silliness and give me something with channels, layers, masking etc. then toss in a decent captioning solution. Somebody please, put together a pro photo editing tool and free us from these lying greedy bastards. With all the goodwill tossed in the trash bin by adobe, the first one to do it will make a fortune.

Next they're gonna be like "omg, y so many ppl pirate our softwaer!?"
Seriously, I bought CS3 not even a year ago, and I plan on upgrading to SL soon. I'm not gonna pay another couple hundred for my software just to WORK, that's BS. Luckily there's an option where you don't have to pay, and I'm sure many people here will go for that option. If Adobe doesn't even care about us, how can they expect us to care about them?

Where in the Wide World of Sports is CS5?

Our testing so far hasn't shown any issues between CS3 Design Standard and OS X 10.6.

For me, Adobe is totally played out. I'm training in video production, and where I am right now, they have CS 3 so I use Premiere. In my free time, I use Apple Video Editing software (iMovie in a pinch, Final Cut whenever possible). If Premiere is anything to go buy...Then, man, EFF Adobe and their "Creative Suite". Premiere straight up sucks. It's like Adobe don't actually USE their software before they release it. And this latest move is basically just giving the finger to their customers. So you have to ask, when their software is only used because it is entrenched, and their start treating their customers like crap...Why the hell should any of their customers not start looking at alternatives.

Oh, and while we're on the subject, screw Flash.

This is pretty concerning. Adobe make some pretty expensive software, and the gap between releases tends to be pretty small. I know a lot of people that only upgrade every second release.

From what I've seen, while CS4 is better than CS3, it's no mega upgrade. If I were to fork out for CS3, unless CS4 had some killer app, I would wait for CS5. I know Adobe has lots of big priorities, like the re-write of PS, but surely they could spend a couple of days checking CS3 still works?