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It's absolutely bug city. I'm getting frequent crashes and can't even log-into my Google account, which is the entire point of using Chrome.

Hopefully the M1 isn't especially difficult to develop for..but man alive is this entry M1BA incredible.
 
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The actual space is icons, images and other assets that are shared in universal binaries. The actual code is not so big so I don't understand who would make such a decision. It's not like Google doesn't have good servers.
Image assets are chonky, but Chrome does have a number of large libraries inside it, like the video codecs, WebRTC, etc. These would all need to be recompiled for ARM. It would get pretty big.
 
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This is deja vu from the PowerPC to Intel transition. I don't think it's going to be as simple as Apple maintain. I think Intel Macs were out a year or more before Office wasn't running under Rosetta 1.0
I think back then there was no Microsoft Office subscription model, so they always had several years between major Office upgrades. Now with the subscription model, they have no excuse not to deliver timely updates to their customers, and as someone else mentioned, they already have a native binary beta out.
 
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This is deja vu from the PowerPC to Intel transition. I don't think it's going to be as simple as Apple maintain. I think Intel Macs were out a year or more before Office wasn't running under Rosetta 1.0
Did you read the short article? Apparently not, since your comment makes no sense, if you did. It says: "Chrome 87, released today, comes in a version that's optimized for Apple Silicon". Can you make sense of that? In other words, it's a Chrome build native to the M1.
 
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You’d be downloading twice the size you needed and it consumes your precious disk space. Universal binaries are useless in the 2020s since they’re really 2000s tech.
useless? without them you have to download the right platform version for every app, and then when you migrate to an Mx box, reinstall every app. They're a convienence that for the vast majority of users makes sense.

but nope, chrome has to, as usual, do their own thing. Between the power hits, privacy issues, and now this, it's a good time to retire it completely.
 
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This is deja vu from the PowerPC to Intel transition. I don't think it's going to be as simple as Apple maintain. I think Intel Macs were out a year or more before Office wasn't running under Rosetta 1.0

If memory serves, the switch to Intel came as much more of a surprise. I don’t think developers had much prep work done. The current switch to AS has pretty much been a forgone conclusion for quite a while...
 
"Mac with Apple chip."

Wondering how many consumers totally unfamiliar with chipsets and what’s under the hood, will look at that and say “well, I have an Apple computer so of course it has an Apple chip..duh” and just click that? It’s kind of funny when you think about it. I can’t think of any other industry that expects the end user to be so familiar with the technical underpinnings. Sure glad I don’t have to know how much horsepower my engine in a car is, or who makes the engine as I would be in trouble...lol.
Just don't tell anyone they're different. ;) I'm hoping to sell my current intel one for a decent price when the redesigned models come out...
 
Am I missing something? I'm not seeing the option for an M1 download and when I install it asks me to install rosetta. Is there a direct link?
 
Typical Google. Apple made this transition so easy, and Google somehow manages to make it confusing.
 
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They discussed using universal binaries, but they prefer to release platform specific binaries to save space and bandwidth as universal binaries are almost as large as x86+arm binaries combined

You can see the discussion here:https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1142017
What a joke. Chrome keeps (or kept, I've since uninstalled it) a second copy of its Chromium framework (which is already bloated). You can check in Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks.

Maybe if they used a proper installer package which uses HFS/APFS compression, it'd take up less space, binaries tend to compress well.
 
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At Google: Universal binaries Meh... 🤷🏻‍♂️
Let’s just confuse a bunch of people to save a couple of Megabytes.

Meanwhile at Adobe: If we work all nighter‘s for the next three weeks we can patch Adobe Flash 18 more times before it gets discontinued in January!
 
"Mac with Apple chip."

Wondering how many consumers totally unfamiliar with chipsets and what’s under the hood, will look at that and say “well, I have an Apple computer so of course it has an Apple chip..duh” and just click that? It’s kind of funny when you think about it. I can’t think of any other industry that expects the end user to be so familiar with the technical underpinnings. Sure glad I don’t have to know how much horsepower my engine in a car is, or who makes the engine as I would be in trouble...lol.
Its more like knowing whether you have a petrol or diesel engine to know which fuel to put in.
 
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