Read more here:In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application or major revision of a product was introduced for Windows first and followed months later, sometimes never at all, by a Mac version.
After Steve Jobs took over and he was charting out a new course with OS X, Apple reached out many times to Abode to introduce a native version of their suite for the new OS. Adobe never committed standing by its prediction that OS X would never gain momentum or share and it would ride the Windows ascendancy. Adobe thought that it had the dominant hand and displayed its arrogance in public.
http://innerdaemon.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/sorry-adobe-you-screwed-yourself/
My very recent personal experiences:
I'm currently here working with CS3 photoshop on my work machine - it crashes and hangs regularly, and always has. It's workable, but sometimes annoying. When it hangs, I come over to RM to see what's up - the amount that I'm over here gives you a pretty good idea of performance.
On my personal machine, I have the CS4 Design Premium suite I purchased (~$2,000). Photoshop CS4 is the application I spend the most time on and while generally good, it has significant problems with stability. In the past, Adobe would put out a few bugfix releases that would take care of these issues. However, with Photoshop CS4 OSX, they did not release one single update, not a single update to it in 18 months - so what shipped on the disc is it... and from the looks of it have no intention to as they have released CS5 - the upgrade is ~$600. I can't support this behavior, so I'm going to work with what I have, and not "upgrade" until this changes - I'm not holding my breath.
Is it too much to ask to support your software?