Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
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Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#2How good is Rosetta 2 in practice?
Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#3How good is Rosetta 2 in practice?
That was my first question. Is the dropbox app doing that much in terms of heavy lifting?
Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#4How good is Rosetta 2 in practice?
When it works it's fine. But I'm getting bug reports that users have to install or update it manually to run x86 binaries, which is terrible UX for anything that isn't a developer tool.
Don't take this comment as gospel though, I have not had time or resources to investigate what was going on.
Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#5Dropbox has engineering issues in general.
Linux support is terrible, their app still doesn't support sync on demand and probably never will. The net effect of this is that people with a lot of data in their dropboxes (i.e. paying customers) get to choose between either losing huge amounts of drive space unnecessarily or just not syncing that folder at all.
One has to wonder if the reason they're not supporting Apple Silicon is a lack of technical ability rather than just a brain-dead organizational decision.
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#6After the horrendous recent Google Drive update I decided to give Dropbox a try for the first time in 8+ years, and the software quality has truly taken a decline.
I’m considering switching to iCloud Drive at this point but I’m not a huge fan of how it works either. Any alternatives I should be aware of?
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#7How good is Rosetta 2 in practice?
When I first got my M1 MacBook Air I was still a DropBox paid customer. But when the app started using over half a gigabyte of memory, I took more and more stuff out of it and started putting it on iCloud. I've cancelled my subscription and now have less than my grandfathered free space occupied, with no syncing going on.
I have very few apps that require Rosetta 2. In my experience, it works great, but I can no longer imagine having an app that requires Rosetta running constantly in the background. My MBA is only 8GB, and while that is rarely a problem for me, I can't afford to just fritter it away.
Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#8How good is Rosetta 2 in practice?
Another important question: how long does Apple plan to support/maintain it?
Re: Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
#9After the horrendous recent Google Drive update I decided to give Dropbox a try for the first time in 8+ years, and the software quality has truly taken a decline. I’m considering switching to iCloud Drive at this point but I’m not a huge fan of how it works either. Any alternatives I should be aware of?
Microsoft said in a blog post that they’re working on Apple Silicon support (i don’t know if they already released it) and much better integration with the finder. Articles look really promising.
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