After the November 2020 launch day chaos, with not that much existing software available was working on those machines at the time like Docker, Java, Android Studio / Emulator, VSTs, etc a typical developer would have to wait more than 6 months just to do their work with fully supported software on the system and to take full advantage of the performance gains rather than using Rosetta.
At that point, they might as well skipped the M1 machines and instead waited to purchase the M1 Pro MacBooks. Now there isn't a rush in getting a M1 Macbook anymore as now Apple is already moving to the M2 line up.
By the time they have made an Apple Silicon Mac Pro, they are already planning ahead for the new series of Apple Silicon chips; probably M3, which will be after the M2 Pro/Ultra products.
After that, it will be the beginning of the end of macOS on Intel.
What’s the point of this comment? Every consumer electronic product has a new version a year or 2 away.
Apple products also have a long reputation of having a sweet spot for buying a new product. The Mac Buyers guide has existed for like a decade or more.
> What’s the point of this comment? Every consumer electronic product has a new version a year or 2 away.
So after 9 months releasing the M1 Macbooks, the M1 Pro Macbooks came out afterwards, already replacing the old ones in less than a year. Given this fast cycle, there is a reason why the Osborne effect precisely applies to Apple's flagship products rather than 'Every consumer electronic product'.
This is a new system running on a new architecture and it must run the same apps on the user's previous computer. Unfortunately, the software for it was just too early to be available on the system at the time and if was there, it didn't run at all in Nov 2020. Even a simple update will brick the system.
What use is a system that bricks on an update; losing your important file or for power users having to wait 6 months for the software they use everyday to be available and supported for their work?
Going all in on the hype fed by the Apple boosters and hype squad doesn't make any sense as a buyers guide.
>So after 9 months releasing the M1 Macbooks, the M1 Pro Macbooks came out afterwards, already replacing the old ones in less than a year.
The M1 Air and 13" Pro are really entry level machines. The first model with a M1 Pro costs $700USD over the base model 13" M2 MBP. The M1 Pro still has much better performance compared to a base M2. The M1 Pro, Max and Ultra didn't replace anything. No one with a budget is going "Oh, the M1 Pro only cost an extra $700USD, I'll get that".
>What use is a system that bricks on an update; losing your important file or for power users having to wait 6 months for the software they use everyday to be available and supported for their work?
What's the point of this comment? Things happen. It sucks. Apple isn't the first and won't be the last company to make a mistake. Don't get sucked into the shininess of their latest product.
> The M1 Pro still has much better performance compared to a base M2. The M1 Pro, Max and Ultra didn't replace anything.
Exactly. Hence, why many skipped the M1 and bought the 14-inch Mac with M1 Pro instead. With the time it took for all the existing software to work properly on Apple Silicon, the 14 inch M1 Pro was available and little to no-one bothered with getting the old broken 13 inch M1 MBP.
> No one with a budget is going "Oh, the M1 Pro only cost an extra $700USD, I'll get that".
No one on a "budget" would get a computer that would cost more than $1,000 and it bricks on a system update / restore or chooses an Apple machine in the first place. Plenty of money saved up by then or financing options for the next version, instead of wasting it all on launch day and losing all your files next week.
> What's the point of this comment? Things happen. It sucks. Apple isn't the first and won't be the last company to make a mistake. Don't get sucked into the shininess of their latest product.
It is the truth of the matter and it happened very frequently on launch day with lots of users complaining that their shiny new computer bricked on an update / restore, etc and have lost all their files and are unable to use the computer. So once again...
What use is a system for users that bricks on an update / restore; losing all your files and waiting months for the software one uses everyday to be available and supported for basic work?
> Don't get sucked into the shininess of their latest product.
Don't tell that to me, tell that to these people who fell for it. [0] [1] [2]
Photoshop worked on M1 on day 1. What is the argument even about here? Someone is upset that all software developers didn’t port everything to M1 overnight?
As of March 2021, Photoshop now runs natively on Apple computers using the Apple Silicon M1 chip with 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems.
Even before that it wasn't supported or designed to run on M1, hence the frequent crashes and freezing users were getting. Therefore, it wasn't working.
So how exactly is waiting until March 2021 for a stable M1 version of Photoshop, "working on day 1"?
Working != being a native app. The latter may be an interesting technical detail, but absolutely no user of the app will really care. They care about “does it open and not crash” (which _everything_ did b/c Rosetta) and - in a very distant second place - is it faster than before (which it also was).
So no: There was no one saying “but no software works”
This is just nonsense, there is tons of performance critical software.
A lot that hasn't been ported to native still doesn't run properly or at all.
DAWs that run on rosetta have many problems with VST plugins and performance.
Just because something opens and doesn't crash, doesn't mean it works properly at all.
I’m pretty sure I saw this somewhere, but now I can’t find it, so I accept the possibility (though I think it’s low probability) that I’m misremembering.
At that point, they might as well skipped the M1 machines and instead waited to purchase the M1 Pro MacBooks. Now there isn't a rush in getting a M1 Macbook anymore as now Apple is already moving to the M2 line up.
By the time they have made an Apple Silicon Mac Pro, they are already planning ahead for the new series of Apple Silicon chips; probably M3, which will be after the M2 Pro/Ultra products.
After that, it will be the beginning of the end of macOS on Intel.