You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support sh...
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
Threatening to leave or actually leaving a company is a deranged reply. The rally for DB to upgrade to MI native software has 3 votes (including mine). You can't expect a company to care about an issue if the customers do not.
Updating this little sync app is a matter of days. If the code is good a few hours... Even a intern can do that.
- I seriously doubt that it’s a trivial task to make this a Universal app, because Dropbox chose to turn what used to be a simple syncing app into a bloated “do everything” app.
They painted themselves into a corner just as Apple did with iTunes (now turned into 3 separate apps), or like Adobe has now done with their Creative Cloud app, which now combines so many functions outside of being just a Dashboard to install/deinstall/update all of their software, that they also still don’t even have a beta Universal version even though they already have full release Apple Silicon versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator, and beta AS versions of most of their other apps (save for After Effects and a few others).
Dropbox has become bloatware and we Apple Silicon users are paying the price…and staying mum is not doing them (or us) any favors.
