Dropbox Planning to Add Native Apple Silicon Support to Mac App in First Half of 2022 [Updated]

[KirekkusuPT]

Dumbasses.

When every mac is ARM what will they do? Keep running an x86 binary?

People complain about Apples tight policies but from the moment every mac is ARM apple should implement something in the likes of "new app updates must be, at least, universal binaries".

What a ********. I hope people leave, that's the only way they will implement that ASAP.

 

[lkrupp]

With Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud Drive, Dropbox is looking like a dead man walking.

 

[Runespeaker]

With that being said, Apple silicon support has been spotty for many major applications. Acronis doesn’t offer preliminary support for Monterey atm, meaning Monterey backup is not possible. VSCode is not native enough either, as macOS keeps saying the app will not work on a future release of macOS.

VS Code added Apple silicon support (as a Universal binary) back in March. So sounds like you might want to download the latest version.

 

[tevion5]

I refuse to follow every trend in the tech world.
I don't have time to recompile my apps in any fancy universal binary.
If 32-bit PowerPC was good enough for 2003, it's good enough for today.

 

[simonulacrum]

This seems like an awfully smug approach.

 

[ddtmm]

Doesn't seem like that big a deal. It's not like Dropbox will noticeably run faster natively. It's a background app or the most part. You can be sure they will write a native version eventually if they start losing subscribers. Realistically they have until Apple drops support for Rosetta 2, which according to Apple is not very soon. When they transitioned to Intel in the 2000s Rosetta support lasted about 5 years.

 

[PetrolFuel]

I hope this is just a unexperienced community manager that saw this as an opportunity to create som activity at the forum. The app has to become native. My team will find other services if not.

 

[icanhazmac]

Time to get serious about setting up my Synology to provide this service.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

Never cared for Dropbox’s front-facing attitude and this is yet another example of why I left them a few years ago. No desire to give money to a company that doesn’t want to listen or truly serve their customers.

 

[roar08]

In my 25 years of Internet startups, giants rise and giants fall. I think sometimes companies think they're "making a statement" when in fact they're ignoring an inevitable future and giving up yards to competitors. Sold Dropbox stock over a year ago. Like the stock, the company is flat and completely uninteresting at this point. Which isn't to say that won't change in the future ... but that's where they are, and that's where they've been.

That said, I still have good amount of garbage in DB and might consider moving. How's Box vs. OneDrive?

 

[Cameront9]

I actually finally got rid of dropbox earlier this month. I'm still on an Intel Mac and will be for the foreseeable future, but I used to use Dropbox for work-related files. I got a new job and can't even install dropbox on the new company machine, so I'm just using OneDrive now. I realized I had less than 1GB of stuff in Dropbox, so I just dumped everything else into my iCloud Drive folder.

I forgot that free accounts were only 2GB. I had extra space because of some college bonus thing they did back in 2008 (around then anyway). Pretty pitiful.

Anyway, good riddance. They were cool when it first came out, but other cloud file services have far surpassed them since those days.

 

[jerryk]

Drop who? Google Drive and occasionally Msft OneDrive for me.

 

[Velli]

Someone needs to explain to Dropbox what a Product Manager is, and how such a person is supposed to create a roadmap.

 

[Duncan-UK]

Must admit I only ever access Dropbox via browser on the Mac. Didn’t even realise there was an app.

 

[lazyrighteye]

I know there are a lot of DB fans out there. I have no idea why. DB has to be in the running for Worst UX in the game. Seriously. Kludgy and painfully unusable. Honestly unsure why anyone would use it. But again, millions do. It’s likely me.

That said, I can’t imagine deciding to not support the future of Apple’s computers being one that will ensure longevity. Oh well, add this to the list of “things to never think about again.”

 

[miamialley]

Well, that makes my decision to take everything off Dropbox a few months ago and move it all over to iCloud even better. Later Dropbox.

 

[svish]

Maybe in the future dropbox will support 🤔

 

[btrach144]

OneDrive is adding support by the end of the year https://www.imore.com/microsoft-says-onedrive-will-support-m1-powered-macs-later-year

?

 

[00sjsl]

This article came at a serendipitous time, I was about to get a Dropbox subscription. I wonder if they will support Windows 11.

 

[Mr. Dee]

I personally stopped using Dropbox when they introduced the device limits. Mostly on iCloud, OneDrive and Google Drive these days. I was a heavy user of Dropbox many years ago though especially because it used less data when I lived in a rural area on a limited metered data plan. Also, since I’m so invested in Apples ecosystem it’s just more cohesive to use mostly iCloud.

 

[kpluck]

Dropbox will cave in due time.

I have no doubt. However, their lack of a definitive statement on their plans for native Apple silicon support might cost them a lot of clients.

Speaking for myself, my account renews in February. If they haven't announced a timeline for native M1 support by then I will switch to something else. Once that is done, I will never be back.

-kp

 

[Shirasaki]

VS Code added Apple silicon support (as a Universal binary) back in March. So sounds like you might want to download the latest version.

It is the latest apple silicon version and every time I launch the app macOS says the app is not going to be supported in the future.

 

[antibolo]

I stopped using Dropbox years ago because their pricing is simply not competitive with OneDrive, but is the battery usage from running the Dropbox client in Rosetta really that bad?

Also, can we put pressure on Discord too, please?

And also Valve while we're at it, but I guess they really don't care about Macs anymore at this point...

 

[psxp]

I dropped Dropbox a few years ago, went with other better integrated options with google/apple/Microsoft/Amazon

You would think they would make an effort as it’s a competitive market.

 

[AxiomaticRubric]

It’s not that difficult, DropBox employees. One of you could have the Apple Silicon support done over a weekend if your benevolent overlords won’t let you count it toward work hours. ??‍♂️