My interests are largely from the perspective of a home musician and recordist. While I am going to press the button on a new shiny 14" M1 Pro very shortly, one stumbling block is the glacial pace it's taking for third-party plugin developers to market native M-series versions of my favourite Audio Units to use in Logic Pro.
The good news is, I can see from reading others' experiences that running them via Rosetta 2 is largely successful. But it would be nice to have more real M1 apps. Running them via Rosetta is like buying a brand new Tesla and having to tow it everywhere with your old diesel Land Rover because where you live you don't have electricity. Also at some point down the line, Rosetta 2 will be removed from MacOS just like the first Rosetta was quietly phased out in 10.7 Lion.
I understand the lethargy. The userbase is comparatively small (so far), the effort is comparatively big, and we're in an environment where existing users will expect the new version to be handed to them for free. It's the polar opposite to 2005 when there was an army of Intel apps waiting in the wings to be ported across to Intel MacOS from Windows, and also people back then were more receptive to paying a minimum cost to crossgrade to the Intel version.
No names no pack drill but i have emailed a few of the developers whose products I use and got either no reply or some variation of "we're working on it but we cannot give you a timescale".
It will all happen in time.
The good news is, I can see from reading others' experiences that running them via Rosetta 2 is largely successful. But it would be nice to have more real M1 apps. Running them via Rosetta is like buying a brand new Tesla and having to tow it everywhere with your old diesel Land Rover because where you live you don't have electricity. Also at some point down the line, Rosetta 2 will be removed from MacOS just like the first Rosetta was quietly phased out in 10.7 Lion.
I understand the lethargy. The userbase is comparatively small (so far), the effort is comparatively big, and we're in an environment where existing users will expect the new version to be handed to them for free. It's the polar opposite to 2005 when there was an army of Intel apps waiting in the wings to be ported across to Intel MacOS from Windows, and also people back then were more receptive to paying a minimum cost to crossgrade to the Intel version.
No names no pack drill but i have emailed a few of the developers whose products I use and got either no reply or some variation of "we're working on it but we cannot give you a timescale".
It will all happen in time.