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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,
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Hi Emma
Please could you have a look at this idea. I believe we have received enough votes based on when other ideas were responded to.
At a high level, you'll see from the comments there is a fair amount of frustration from users. If there was just a bit of communication on this then I'm sure it would help.
For example, even though OneDrive isn't yet compatible with M1, people are migrating to it because Microsoft has said it will happen this year.
The other options, iCloud, Google Drive, Box already work with the new Macs.
As one of your major three strategic pillars, Core, this idea fully aligns.
Many thanks in advance
You guys are all looking at this wrong. From Day 1 Dropbox has been the greatest murderer of cpu and battery. I, for one, salute their consistency. Stick to your guns, Dropbox! Larger batteries mean more for you to eat! And I have faith you'll innovate new ways to grind these new m1 max chips to a halt like you do with most intel machines, too. Go Dropbox!
Any news on this?
It is one of the situations that "no news" is BAD news
Interesting that big player Dropbox gave such lame replies and cannot put their s**t together while the whole open source community is almost completely m1 native.
That makes no sense! Moving my files elsewhere asap
Seriously?
Stating the obvious but it's been over a year now and you cannot assign ONE Mac dev to this task for a couple of days?!LOL dropbox... more I cant say to this xD
M1 support is not a feature request - it is and should be considered a core to the Dropbox service. Within the creative industry (I'm in music) Apple computers and Dropbox file sharing has more or less been the norm for 10 odd years.
But having one Macbook Air M1 already and just ordered the new MacBook Pro M1 Max to replace my current Mac desktop (intel), I will have no other option but to move my cloud storage and sharing elsewhere if this isn't sorted asap.
It is just insane that this is even an issue. Small and big software developers alike have if not already presented native code at the very least offered roadmaps.
This is definitely necessary in my opinion!
We are a distributed team of 4 marketing and communication specialists who have been working entirely via Dropbox for more than 5 years. We will all have switched to M1 Macs by the end of the year - and naturally expect Dropbox to continue to support its core creative audience natively.
