No iCloud on Snow Leopard? THIS IS A JOKE, APPLE!

I'm in the same boat - I'd love to upgrade my MacBook Pro to Lion so that I can move to iCloud (I also have an iPhone4 and an iPad2), but I can't afford the Adobe CS upgrade (I'm currently running CS3 which is fine for my current needs), so I'm stuck.

Apple, won't you please consider a solution for us?

I'd happily pay $30 to upgrade to Lion, but then my existing copy of Adobe CS3 (which I really need) would fail to work and I can't afford the $950 to upgrade Adobe right now 😟.

I use CS3 with Lion, so far everything runs fine.

Backups go to the cloud??? Is there no option to have the backups stored locally? Apple seems to be assuming that everyone has an internet connection that is always on and always reliable. Not true for lots of us, including me. Also, ISP's are starting to monitor data usage, and charge incrementally for it.

Csound1 wrote:

I use CS3 with Lion, so far everything runs fine.

Photoshop droplets do not work, I've tested it. Seems they make PowerPC calls and need Rosetta.

TZ wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

I use CS3 with Lion, so far everything runs fine.

Photoshop droplets do not work, I've tested it. Seems they make PowerPC calls and need Rosetta

I use droplets, they run with no issue for me (just made a save as droplet action and tested it again)

Csound1 wrote:

TZ wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

I use CS3 with Lion, so far everything runs fine.

Photoshop droplets do not work, I've tested it. Seems they make PowerPC calls and need Rosetta

I use droplets, they run with no issue for me (just made a save as droplet action and tested it again)

Besides my own testing here is the official response from Adobe.

Droplets don't work | Photoshop CS5, CS4, CS3 | Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/907/cpsid_90706.html

Are droplets the only possible issue in PS CS3? I really don't use them with any kind of regularity for the work that I do in PS, so that wouldn't be an issue for me. What about Illustrator CS3? Any issues with Illustrator and Lion? If I can run PS CS3 and AI CS3 without any major issues, I'll upgrade to Lion in a heartbeat! Thanks!

RonP317 wrote:

Are droplets the only possible issue in PS CS3? I really don't use them with any kind of regularity for the work that I do in PS, so that wouldn't be an issue for me. What about Illustrator CS3? Any issues with Illustrator and Lion? If I can run PS CS3 and AI CS3 without any major issues, I'll upgrade to Lion in a heartbeat! Thanks!

Here is some info that may be helpful to you.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/21/adobe_lion_incompatibilities/

We all upgrade our Macs, we all upgrade our software. We all have to do it at our own paces. I don't think it is unfair to assume that everyone will upgrade to Lion or whatever iterations come next or thereafter. It does seem unfair that people are being forced to disgard valuable pieces of software that may be incompatible with Lion, or spend a small fortune upgrading the packages to make them compatible just to use iCloud. Apple could quite easily provide the functions for SL (as many have demonstrated in many threads like this, there is no special magical Lion specific coding going on). I find it grating that they favour Vista and Win7 over SL ...

Great support ... or rather, there used to be!

Give your feedback here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html

I think I will have to use my old mac mini to LION so all my Apple devices will sync.

This really BLOWS!!

I cannot use LION because they don't have Rosette which I still run Office 2004 with built in Macros in Excel that I use.

LION forces me to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading expensive Software packages with Microsoft and Adobe.

I CANNOT use iCloud thus..and therefore cannot sync my iPhone once Mobile me is taken away.

THIS *****

HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL ROSETTA FROM AN OLD SNOW LEOPARD SYSTEM CD ONTO LION?????????

If works..then I WILL upgrade to LION.

Otherwise..I hope there is another company that can sync your address/cal/and email on the iphone.

When opportunity knocks....

Kimbakat wrote:

HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL ROSETTA FROM AN OLD SNOW LEOPARD SYSTEM CD ONTO LION?????????

If works..then I WILL upgrade to LION.

Otherwise..I hope there is another company that can sync your address/cal/and email on the iphone.

When opportunity knocks....

It doesn't work.

I'm also using CS3 with Lion, and it works just like did with Snow Leopard. I was really expecting not to work, but it does. Appleworks, however, doesn't work at all, and I had to convert all my Appleworks documents to Pages, which wasn't a big deal. Seems as though Apple is doing a better job making their OS upgrades compatible with 3rd party software than their own!

Csound1 wrote:

Kimbakat wrote:

HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL ROSETTA FROM AN OLD SNOW LEOPARD SYSTEM CD ONTO LION?????????

If works..then I WILL upgrade to LION.

Otherwise..I hope there is another company that can sync your address/cal/and email on the iphone.

When opportunity knocks....

It doesn't work.

Correct. And also does it not bring back Rosetta if you transplant the /usr/libexec/oah directory of Snow into Lion.

Rosetta has been disabled directly in Lions kernel. The reason is simply that Apple no longer license this software to End-Users - the code of Rosetta has never been owned by Lion Apple, it was only licensed from the company that invented this software. So obviously these contracts are no longer active, thus forcing Apple to forbid at a systemlevel the usage of this stuff in order to avoid trouble. Google about that . "Rosetta" actually is the software "translate" by a company named also "translate".

Btw to "Klimbakat" : Office 2004 has been made initially for OSX 10.2.x, that was in 2002/2003. Running such antiqe software in 2011 is just ridiculous. Microsoft is fully Intel compatible since 2007. You had 4 years to already upgrade it at least to that version named "2008", which runs fine in Lion.

With ot without "rosetta" : PPC software and hardware is dead as dead as can be. Move on. If not now, when ??

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