I wonder why they wouldn’t let the iOS version downloadable from M1 Macs. Early on I had a better experience with that app .ipa on my MacBook Air and with a couple shortcut tweaks it would be perfect. It’s sad that they deliberately uncheck the box to just let it run as is on M1 in their AppStore release. Especially so for an open source app. It is also not feasible to compile manually as you would miss push notifications.
Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
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Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#12I just searched, there's no result on the word fuck, someone got butthurt because their free work for apple didn't pay off. The signal guy responds with a perfectly reasonable explaination, including explaining what a bug is, and why support of a new platform is indeed a feature.
So I flagged for editorialised title. Sigh.
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#13I just searched, there's no result on the word fuck, someone got butthurt because their free work for apple didn't pay off. The signal guy responds with a perfectly reasonable explaination, including explaining what a bug is, and why support of a new platform is indeed a feature.
So I flagged for editorialised title. Sigh.
English isn't my mother tongue, I thought the expression was appropriate but reading your comments I realised maybe not. Update the title accordingly.
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
So I flagged for editorialised title. Sigh.
English isn't my mother tongue, I thought the expression was appropriate but reading your comments I realised maybe not. Update the title accordingly.
That's good of you. Unflagged by me, then, but still apparently flagged by someone else.
Fuck off is a rather rude response, not suitable for use in writing in many professional contexts. It's the kind of wording you shouldn't put in other people's mouths.
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#15They have a policy to not talk about future features? What is there to hide/protect by witholding such information I wonder. I wont speculate, would like to have someone inform me. Signal is slowly stacking up bye-bye points from me
Don't know what their specific reasons are, but from the obvious "not talking about future features" benefits: 1. removes unnecessary induced expectations pressure from the outside (there's already enough of it), 2. allows to focus/arbitrate on your priorities depending on your resources. They very well may have an other higher priority item on their hands at this time. As for accepting contributed large contributed…
Although this argument (1) seems reasonable at first, I'm not really convinced, because although it does introduce expectations for what's to come, at the same time it removes the expectations for what's not to come.
The bye-bye points are more for the lack of transparency rather than the actual decision not to support/merge this. They could have very well given a nice explanation saying something along these lines:
- Thanks for the contribution - We don't have the resources to properly support arm64, it's not just a matter of accepting this PR but also ongoing budget allocation for supporting this platform on our products - Here is a link to a donations page, if we get X money we can allocate resources for this feature
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
English isn't my mother tongue, I thought the expression was appropriate but reading your comments I realised maybe not. Update the title accordingly.
That's good of you. Unflagged by me, then, but still apparently flagged by someone else. Fuck off is a rather rude response, not suitable for use in writing in many professional contexts. It's the kind of wording you shouldn't put in other people's mouths.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, I better understand now and indeed it has no place here.
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#17I just searched, there's no result on the word fuck, someone got butthurt because their free work for apple didn't pay off. The signal guy responds with a perfectly reasonable explaination, including explaining what a bug is, and why support of a new platform is indeed a feature.
So I flagged for editorialised title. Sigh.
I didn't flag either, I just don't think the people in the thread has a valid point. It's entirely up to signal which platforms to add support for, and when to do it, and having whatevertheapp on your platform is a privilege, not a right, even if you make a patch for it.
Re: Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
#18I just searched, there's no result on the word fuck, someone got butthurt because their free work for apple didn't pay off. The signal guy responds with a perfectly reasonable explaination, including explaining what a bug is, and why support of a new platform is indeed a feature.
Yeah I was confused when I opened up the link as well. This is basically a meta-bug complaining about why the original bug was closed: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461
But as the other comments here point out, it's a perfectly reasonable response from Signal's part.