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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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literally only a product manager would think this is a good way to prioritize must-do upgrades
The whole idea of Dropbox's macOS integration is to be as unobtrusive and seamless as possible—just add a green checkmark next to my files and provide some extra file sharing options. At its best it feels like an extension of Finder. This is a fundamental promise to users, and failing to do this right—in a lightweight, battery-efficient, modern, and unobtrusive way—has me and many others looking for competitors who will deliver on that promise.
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Dear Dropbox team
I have to move to another cloud storage service if you won’t make your app ARM M1 native. Google Drive is native and Microsoft OneDrive will get native support in a couple of weeks. What is stopping you? Here are thousand of customers who are likely to move to another service if you can’t get it under control and give us what’s overdue.
@dropbox simply put if dropbox doesn't update the software to support Apple Silicon then I will find another solution and discontinue my dropbox subscription. Please update your software to support ARM
I have been a member for many years. It would be sad to have to leave over this.
What's crazy about this is that (I'm guessing but someone please correct me if you know otherwise) a majority of Dropbox's engineering team uses Macs. Something doesn't add up.
The idea that unless we explicitly tell you to, you're going to allow your product to stop working on Apple machines — because Rosetta is a TEMPORARY BRIDGE, and sooner or later, that bridge will be OUT — is pretty shocking. It's not as if you don't know that you have a significant Mac-using customer base.
Wow are you REALLY not embracing the Mac natively from now on?
I don't need gas guzzlers on my M1 Mac so I won't be renewing my subscription without at least a native beta at the horizon.
