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_robin_
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago
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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 duplicat...
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  • Emmet's avatar
    Emmet
    4 years ago

    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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xmetal
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

For a company of this size to need public shaming, basically, to get on board with fundamental compatibility is pretty sad. My guess is that an engineer or two was playing around with the M1 build on the side but it was not on the radar of management until this blew up. Then you get the, "oh but of course we will!" response.

 

If they had been serious on this topic a.) they've had a year, it would have been done already b.) it would not take an additional 6-9 months from today to release.

 

I'd bet a few bucks they had no active project to get this done because Rosetta worked well enough and only now do we see leadership mention it, because they got called out. If there hadn't been an article and flood of people to this message today it would have been crickets, like it's been for the last year.

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