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

I mean... they have to make it native someday, but... will we really see speed gains ?
The performance of this app is 99% based on storage speed + Internet speed, rather than CPU/GPU speed.

The only benefit for us Mac users is to rely less and less on Rosetta 2, and to eventually be able to uninstall it. Am I correct ?
 
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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.
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Ah, well, that's good news!
 
I'm probably being naive asking this. Why would they find it so complicated to support Apple Silicon? From their development perspective, wouldn't Xcode do most if not all the heavy lifting when creating universal binary? The only real hurdle I can imagine is if they need to embed some third party library that is x86 only. And if that is the blocker, then it is probably older unsupported library code that could/should be replaced.
 
I'm one of the people who have posted on that original thread over the month and finally gave up half a year ago. Didn't renew my yearly dropbox plan when it ran out and upgraded my iCloud to 2TB. Done. Won't be looking back.

They have enough engineering resources to put on **** like Dropbox Replay but seemingly no one who cares about the core product anymore. They don't deserve Mac users money.
 
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Haven't used dropbox much lately. Must say Icloud is horribly slow though, I'm sure Apple Silicon support is badly needed there. Google and Onedrive need it too, but icloud sucks resources like crazy. It's not my internet, it's 1GBit up/down. I wish for a proper "skydrive", as in, nothing is synced from or to the computer, the drive in the cloud is just like another network drive. There are ways to get this set up, but I want it to run in MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android and for me it isn't an easy setup.
 
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I dropped Dropbox years ago. It wasn't bad, but I signed up for Apple+ and really, I have zero problems with iCloud Drive and have a ton of stuff there. And 2 terabytes of storage...along with the other things included.
 
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Dropbox needs to get it together already. My buddy and I always talk about this and joke about how Dropbox STILL doesn't natively support Apple Silicon. Like HUH?! How is that even possible? Indie devs can do it, even other big corps have done it. Dropbox? I might not renew when my year is up if they don't do it.
 
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They're probably still salty about Steve Jobs trying to buy them out.
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Why would they be salty? Jobs apparently offered $800M. They felt they were worth much more. Sure enough, in a relatively short time, Dropbox was valued at $4B and valuations have gone as high as $8B (correction: over $12B in 2018). Good for them for not "giving away" the company at such a bargain.

I doubt there's any "revenge" or "grudges" at play here. If I was them, I would be flattered that Apple wanted my business, made a large cash offer and Jobs himself showed up to make the pitch. What a terrific story and great PR to help others perceive great valuation in "my" company.

M-Silicon is a tiny fraction of the whole Mac base which is a tiny fraction of the whole market Dropbox serves. I'm confident they'll get to it when it makes financial sense to them. Right now, it works exactly as it always has on both Intel and M-series Macs.

This isn't an announcement that they are ceasing service to M-series Macs. It all "just works" as it "just worked" yesterday.
 
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That’s a very very silly on Dropbox part. I already thought this through before getting my new mac. I have cancelled my subscription and will be using iCloud for all my projects, files and backups.
 
As of the date of this comment, One Drive also does not support Apple Silicon natively, although they have announced it is coming by the end of the year. I figured it would be announced concurrently with the M1 Pro/Max systems, but it was not.

I have not used Dropbox in years. I use One Drive for work (my company is all in on O365) and iCloud/iCloud Drive for home use.
 
They need people to vote, eh? How about I vote with my wallet?

I’ve been a DropBox user for probably close to 10 years. iCloud Drive is pretty decent now and iOS file management outside the DropBox app has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years. DropBox really isn’t necessarily for me any more I suppose. I’ve been hanging on to my subscription figuring that updated Mac support was coming (yes, the Intel version still works — for now) and because it works easily between my PCs (one home PC and two work PCs), my M1 MacBook Air, and my iOS/iPadOS devices. But these days, so does iCloud Drive, OneDrive and others.

So what’s it going to be, DropBox? Either Mac users are important to your business, or they’re not. If not, I’ll move to an alternative that does care about their Mac users.
 
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I can't stand Dropbox. Easily the worst of the cloud storage providers. I cringe every time someone sends me a Dropbox link.

This is just one more reason to despise them.
 
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I don’t like what Dropbox has become—it uses way too much memory for what it does, and they’ve never offered reasonably-priced tiers for folks who don’t need a huge amount of storage. It just seems like they never tried to gain a part of the market that other cloud storage providers embraced. Because of that, I only ever really used Dropbox to sync our YNAB4 budget, and when Dropbox added device limits, it sorta ruined that concept as well (and YNAB abandoned their customers to become yet another subscription model). All companies can occasionally be out-of-touch with their market base, but there are some that never seem to get it.
 
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Weird. I can't imagine they're doing anything x86-specific with it. Even if they are, why exactly does it run so poorly in Rosetta 2? The app shouldn't be doing much with the CPU anyway.
 
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I moved from DropBox to iCloud Drive a year or so ago. It is seamless, extra space comes with Apple One, etc.
 
Aggedor said:
OneDrive is not yet Apple Silicon native, though.
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Microsoft says a native version is coming by the end of the year. It does seem strange that it is taking so long, given that they have already rewritten the rest of Office 365. Do these apps access some low-level links in the OS that make them more difficult to port than other apps?
 
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Microsoft says a native version is coming by the end of the year. It does seem strange that it is taking so long, given that they have already rewritten the rest of Office 365. Do these apps access some low-level links in the OS that make them more difficult to port than other apps?
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Or does updating trigger some additional app review?
 
This is a silly response.

Purely from a PR perspective, they will have to develop an ARM solution eventually... just like Apple eventually dropped Rosetta for translating PPC apps on Intel, they are going to drop it in the future for translating Intel on M1 - its just a matter of time. So why they would alienate users like this is beyond me... Saying something like "we don't yet have a timeline, but we hear you" leaves a much different impression than what they are doing, which leaves the impression that they don't care about the user's opinions.

From a competitive perspective, they need to see that their competition is already fielding betas or full solutions, and they need to think strongly about where they prioritize this.
 
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