The only reason I even kept my free Dropbox account is because it was the only syncing service Scrivener used, and I needed it for my dissertation writing. Now that the dissertation is done and I’m a Ph.D., I have no reason to keep Dropbox anymore. Their paid services are way overpriced, so this just gives me a reason to ditch them for good. Peace out!
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Dropbox Planning to Add Native Apple Silicon Support to Mac App in First Half of 2022 [Updated]
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I just sent dropbox support that if they do not reverse course on this I will be leaving. Been a customer for I think almost 15 years at this point (or however long they've been around). I will be canceling...their decisions lately have been poor, and if they turn hostile to the Mac that's it.
Here's my two cents worth.. - I'm getting ready to replace 2 iMacs and 1 MacBook and they all use dropbox. It's easy enough to migrate to a different system and that I shall do this December if the new 27" iMacs appear, otherwise it's just a matter of time.
Just like omglolbbq stated in thread #, if this is the arrogance is true with dropbox...
Just like omglolbbq stated in thread #, if this is the arrogance is true with dropbox...
"Dropbox Seemingly Has No Plans to Keep Their Apple Users"
switched to pCloud a while ago... Dropbox is not at the top anymore... so should be thier news.
Vote for it here in the official DropBox Ideas! forums:
www.dropboxforum.com
Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility | The Dropbox Community
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...
www.dropboxforum.com
Really ought to rename the product to DropBall.
They're probably still pouting that apple won't let them have a ring zero kernel level driver anymore.
Found this hard to believe, but Dropbox customer service chat just now as follows. I just assumed it was in the works:
Chat transcript:
( 14:29:31 ) Visitor: Hi there - have just been reading that dropbox has no plans to natively support apple silicon. Is that right?! If so, I'll sadly be leaving
( 14:30:39 ) Keith: Hello John, and thank you for contacting Dropbox support. My name is Keith, and I will be more than happy to assist you with your issue, right away.
( 14:30:50 ) Keith: Let me check fo you, give me one moment please.
( 14:33:38 ) Keith: I can confirm that information for you, or at least I have no support information available.
( 14:34:40 ) Visitor: That's not great. Anyway, thanks. As I say, in that case I'll be switching away from dropbox in the next couple of months
( 14:35:03 ) Keith: Sorry to hear that, Is there anything else I can help you with today?
( 14:35:44 ) Visitor: If you can pass on my feedback to management that would be great. How a company the size of dropbox doesn't support the new systems of the world's biggest tech company - the mind boggles
Chat transcript:
( 14:29:31 ) Visitor: Hi there - have just been reading that dropbox has no plans to natively support apple silicon. Is that right?! If so, I'll sadly be leaving
( 14:30:39 ) Keith: Hello John, and thank you for contacting Dropbox support. My name is Keith, and I will be more than happy to assist you with your issue, right away.
( 14:30:50 ) Keith: Let me check fo you, give me one moment please.
( 14:33:38 ) Keith: I can confirm that information for you, or at least I have no support information available.
( 14:34:40 ) Visitor: That's not great. Anyway, thanks. As I say, in that case I'll be switching away from dropbox in the next couple of months
( 14:35:03 ) Keith: Sorry to hear that, Is there anything else I can help you with today?
( 14:35:44 ) Visitor: If you can pass on my feedback to management that would be great. How a company the size of dropbox doesn't support the new systems of the world's biggest tech company - the mind boggles
2TB iCloud Drive for $10/month. I can share documents, videos, any link with anyone, and I have native support on Macs, and pretty good support even on Windows. What Mac user would want dropbox anyways? I dropped them years ago.
Even google drive is better for free. And OneDrive. Come to think of it... how is dropbox still a thing? It's like saying myspace won't support native Macs.
Even google drive is better for free. And OneDrive. Come to think of it... how is dropbox still a thing? It's like saying myspace won't support native Macs.
The lack of Silicon support when I got my MBA in June was the reason I moved everything over from Dropbox to my ICloud.
Dropbox appears to have no plans to natively support Apple silicon Macs, almost a year after the first Macs with the M1 chip became available.
An official Dropbox support thread, shared by Mitchell Hashimoto on Twitter, reveals a fiasco around native support for Apple silicon Macs. Dropbox is seemingly insisting that a significant number of community members will have to vote for native Apple silicon support for it to be implemented. There are also multiple repetitious requests with different phrasing, fragmenting users' votes for support.
In July, responses from Dropbox staff on the thread explained that "this idea is going to need a bit more support before we share your suggestion with our team," and flagged Apple silicon support as in need of more votes. A month ago, Dropbox staff again replied to the thread requesting native Apple silicon support, saying that Dropbox will continue to be compatible with all devices that run supported versions of macOS using Apple's Rosetta translation layer.
Additional complaints in the thread claim that Dropbox with Rosetta hemorrhages MacBook battery life and uses a disproportionate amount of memory.
While Dropbox could still natively support Apple silicon Macs in the future, the way in which the issue has been delegated to two standoffish responses on a support thread appears to have caused outrage, with the thread brimming with irate replies and claims that users are planning to move to rival services.
Google Drive was recently updated with native support for Apple silicon, and other services such as Microsoft OneDrive and Box are already testing native Apple silicon support.
Article Link: Dropbox Seemingly Has No Plans to Natively Support Apple Silicon Macs
Definitely a thing. Last December moved to what I think is the last rev of MacBook Pro 16 inch (Intel) with all the options. Before that was daily driving a Razer Blade Pro 2017 model with HS, the OS of which was running out of security patches. The M1 processor looked nice, the storage options did not.
The M1 Pro and Max MacBook Pro models now have the 8TB storage and 64 GB RAM option, so if I could have waited another year that is what I would be getting now.
Since I am a big fan of 1Password (version 7 rather than 8) and like to keep stuff local with options for cloud sync, the use of Dropbox for these years with 1Password has been my "cloud/offsite" storage of bare bones backup in case of total catastrophic loss. I use 1Password like a "file cabinet" and let Dropbox sync it to Mac and Windows.
If Dropbox does not support M1 this year is fine with me. In next 18 months when I am likely ready to make the move to M2 Max (hopefully with 128 GB RAM and 16 TB storage) there will be support from Dropbox for that architecture. If not, then will migrate from 1Password to another local based storage option and find another local/cloud based sync option that is not Apple or Alphabet based.
The M1 Pro and Max MacBook Pro models now have the 8TB storage and 64 GB RAM option, so if I could have waited another year that is what I would be getting now.
Since I am a big fan of 1Password (version 7 rather than 8) and like to keep stuff local with options for cloud sync, the use of Dropbox for these years with 1Password has been my "cloud/offsite" storage of bare bones backup in case of total catastrophic loss. I use 1Password like a "file cabinet" and let Dropbox sync it to Mac and Windows.
If Dropbox does not support M1 this year is fine with me. In next 18 months when I am likely ready to make the move to M2 Max (hopefully with 128 GB RAM and 16 TB storage) there will be support from Dropbox for that architecture. If not, then will migrate from 1Password to another local based storage option and find another local/cloud based sync option that is not Apple or Alphabet based.
Gross. I was a super early Dropbox user (back when the url was getdropbox.com) and loved its original mission: it was simply "a folder that syncs" back when that didn't exist otherwise. It was truly amazing back then to have this. But over time it's just gotten super bloated and complex, and iCloud Drive got a ton better.
Dropbox still handles versioning and selective sync a million times better than iCloud Drive, but otherwise I just can't justify paying for it and keeping it installed -- especially when a 2TB iCloud plan costs the same and hooks deeply into my Mac and iPhone.
Sad they can't be effed to even provide M1 support though. That's just like writing off the Mac entirely.
Dropbox still handles versioning and selective sync a million times better than iCloud Drive, but otherwise I just can't justify paying for it and keeping it installed -- especially when a 2TB iCloud plan costs the same and hooks deeply into my Mac and iPhone.
Sad they can't be effed to even provide M1 support though. That's just like writing off the Mac entirely.
I don't even use Dropbox, but what does it matter? The app will run fine either way, it's tiny and lightweight.
This isn't Photoshop.
This isn't Photoshop.
I dropped my $200 a year plan before it auto-renewed and was looking at whether I should renew with business picking back up, but Dropbox will make it really easy to go somewhere else. Been using them since their inception, but if they want to play it that way, I see Box has a native Apple Silicon client now. Tootle-loo, mother****ers!
Besides, actual technical support from them was always a joke, even when my previous job had Dropbox for Business.
I've used dropbox on occasion when someone shared files with me, so I am certainly not a paying customer ...
You can vote with your wallet, if they don't care about Apple users, don't use their service anymore, there are choices.
You can vote with your wallet, if they don't care about Apple users, don't use their service anymore, there are choices.
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Exactly. This exact same post could slug in probably near-countless other software names right now. There's LOTS of stuff that has not gone M-native yet. And that will likely persist while Rosetta persists... with some never bothering to make the change.
Are we forgetting how things went with Rosetta 1? It was YEARS for even some pretty mainstream apps to fully make the change. I still keep one old Mac running Snow Leopard to have access to one key program (and a few non-key-but-nice others) that never made the leap.
Expectations should not be different this time. I know some of us were thoroughly lying to the rest with the "just flip one switch in a compiler" nonsense slung when M-silicon was revealed but if it was that easy, everything would have been M-native within a matter of days. It's not. Why not? Apparently that switch is HEAVY or very hard to find in the compiler.
Instead, there's generally lots of work to be done and tested. And the Mac market is probably still overwhelmingly Intel Macs. And those who already have software like this will really gripe if companies seek to charge more for the work they have to do to re-code for M-series... so time spent re-coding is just business expense without much new ROI for many of these companies- especially utility software like this. Who is willing to pay for a new M-series Dropbox upgrade? And how much? Programming is not free you know.
Dropbox will get there when they feel it in their corporate pocketbook... or can anticipate that impact soon if they don't get with it. The same will be true for so many other apps not yet re-coded/evolved to also be M-series native.
Those most passionate about this should encourage Apple to shut down Rosetta 2 ASAP. That would "force" those interested in this market to evolve their software... or just let this relatively tiny little segment go. What happened with Rosetta 1? Certain pretty useful apps were not evolved and ceased to function when Rosetta 1 was removed. Why didn't those get updated? Probably because there was not enough money in it to evolve them.
Is there enough money in Dropbox allocating resources to do this right now? Probably not. Else, they would. They are basically seeking tangible votes to show there is enough demand to go to their bosses and get their bosses to spend the money on the project for what will likely be no tangible return in the near-term.
Dropbox is a useful, simple, free, cross-platform service that "just works" and barely more than 10 year ago, Steve Jobs himself sat down with this company wanting to buy them and offering what was rumored to be up to $800M for them. Apparently Jobs saw something in Dropbox to be willing to offer so much for them. We should not be so quick to fault them for having a still fully functional app working just fine but not a M-series native version yet.
Else, MacRumors could recycle this article every day and just change the app name. There's PLENTY of them.
Who’s this Dropbox?
Stopped using them years ago. While I have iCloud, OneDrive sniped my need to ever use it again. Microsoft just has better tools and it’s included in Office365 with 1TB. Plus, files go between my Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC and Xbox consoles (screen grabs) with no issues.
Stopped using them years ago. While I have iCloud, OneDrive sniped my need to ever use it again. Microsoft just has better tools and it’s included in Office365 with 1TB. Plus, files go between my Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC and Xbox consoles (screen grabs) with no issues.
I have Dropbox so I can sync 1 Password between my Android Phone and my Apple stuff. As soon as my 23 Pro Max arrives I can finally drop, uh, DropBox altogether and go all in on iCloud.
They plan to be M1 ready by end of year.
Anyone have a good Dropbox replacement? I have 5+ Pro accounts I manage for my work. Four of these accounts can be moved to another service. Dropbox is embedded within some companies (B2B file sharing) and it will likely be that way for a very long time.
I don't want anything self hosted. Would like something as good as Dropbox.
