John Nack Issues Clarification of his Clarification…
Good intentions gone awry is the title to a blog post recently posted by John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop.
It seems that in an attempt at clarifying a previous discussion about what he did or didn’t show at a recent public meeting, he thinks he may have muddied the waters a bit. So, this most recent clarification is an attempt at clarifying the previous clarification, sort of.
As for the content of my post, I know there’s been some lingering confusion, so let me try to clarify a few points for the record:
- I didn’t say whether the next version of Photoshop would or would not be called CS4. Instead, I was simply trying to point out that what I was showing was a technology demonstration that was independent of a particular version.
- Similarly, I didn’t say that GPU-enabled features would or would not ship in the next version of Photoshop. Think, “I can neither confirm nor deny…” When developing any product, details are always subject to change, and it’s always possible that some unforeseen roadblock will appear. That’s why we try so hard to wrap a lot of caution tape around any future-looking statements: we’re excited to be showing you some of what we’re building, and we hope you are, too, but we want to manage expectations & not over-promise anything. Make sense?
- Lastly, I didn’t say that the next version Photoshop would or would not ship on a particular date. My (badly made) point was that nothing had been announced, so the fact that a date of “October 1″ kept getting repeated should be taken with the appropriate grain of salt.
In short, I just meant to say that we weren’t promising any particular features at any particular time–nothing more, nothing less. Hopefully needless to say, we’ll work as hard as we can to bring you the good stuff sooner rather than later.