Dropbox will lastly be updating its Mac app to natively help Apple Silicon someday within the first half of 2022, the corporate confirmed at present. A earlier discussion board thread noticed Dropbox staffers declare {that a} native app would require “a bit extra help earlier than we share your suggestion with our staff.”
The months-old thread was resurfaced in a publish by developer Mitchell Hashimoto on Twitter (spotted by MacRumors), sparking complaints from Dropbox customers who have been upset by the impression that the corporate would solely develop the app if sufficient clients requested for it. Whereas Dropbox technically does work with Apple Silicon {hardware} due to Apple’s Rosetta 2 software program translation layer, it’s not as energy or reminiscence environment friendly because it might be if it ran natively.
In response to the confusion, Dropbox’s CEO Drew Houston clarified that the service is “definitely supporting Apple Silicon” and that it’s been “working for some time on a local M1 construct which we purpose to launch in H1 2022.” Houston additionally apologized for the help thread responses, which he referred to as “not ideally suited.”
We’re definitely supporting Apple Silicon, sorry for the confusion. We have been working for some time on a local M1 construct which we purpose to launch in H1 2022. (And agree the responses within the help thread weren’t ideally suited)
— Drew Houston (@drewhouston) October 28, 2021
The support thread has additionally since been resolved with the same replace clarifying the present growth of a local M1 app and apologizing for the confusion. “Whereas we commonly ask for buyer suggestions and enter on new merchandise or options, this could not have been a kind of situations.”