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Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility
Please can you upgrade the Dropbox app so that it works natively on Apple Silicon Macs (M1) without Rosetta.
Rosetta is not an option as it annihilates the battery.
This may be a duplicate of the below idea however that started for ARM processors in general and you haven't looked at it in 6 years so starting an Apple specific idea in the hope you see it.
There are also lots of comments on this thread to help support the case for demand:
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
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Dropbox is too busy spending their money on cringeworthy product placements in movies. Much easier to move to one of the many competitors which don't eat up half my ram.
I’ve been a customer for well over a decade, but yesterday I took the time to move everything into iCloud Drive, make sure I had backups of everything from Dropbox and uninstalled the app from all my devices.
You had a year to make your software not negatively impact the actual usability of my M1 Mac, and you failed. It was a minor hassle to move everything and unless they lose millions of customers it won’t make a difference, but I feel better knowing that my money won’t go to a company with poor management, poor customer service and a truly clueless future plan.
What a shame.
I kid you not, one of the great news on Dropbox's blog is...
SharePoint integration. SharePoint. Welcome to 2001!
Please check their blog, check their other articles, it's telling - they are completely out of touch with reality. We've lost them.
People using Mac, you should use Maestral (Maestral). It's an Open source Dropbox client, with support for MacOS, better features and less resource consumption.
In my case, it consumes 5 times less RAM! I thank the open-source community for carrying out this project, something that should have been done by the company itself...
Google Drive is now M1 stable on Mac (after months of public betas):
Hopefully this is well into the development process. Box and Google Drive have now released full M1 support, so Dropbox will be losing my company's business in the near future if they aren't working to update their product.
I hadn't found this thread when I started up a completely similar thread at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Apple-Silicon-native-support/idi-p/535627. I'm just pasting that URL here so that both threads are linked - anything to convince Dropbox that the community really wants this.
This thread is already linked in my thread.
Cheers --Mike
I am leaving dropbox. No Dark mode and no m1 support..
what a lazy company.
This needs to happen, dropbox, what's going on????? Are you for real?
