Large outfits with tens of thousands of programmers like Dropbox, Google, Amazon, Adobe etc. Also, despite your 'they had the developer kit and 5 months to buy an M1 Mac!'. Apple will have transitioned all of their lineup except maybe the 26 core Xeon Mac Pro to M1 by then, and the M1 Mac user base will be 20-25 million.

Right now the tiny subset of the 5 million M1 Mac users won't do it. Honestly, what do you believe the job of a software company should be anyway? To make a platform offered by a $2 trillion company look good by shrinking their 'not available on M1' list? Or to make money to pay their employees, pay the bills and stay in business by creating software that people will buy? If you realize that the LATTER is the case then it is in the interests of these companies to prioritize development projects that will actually make enough money to justify the coding effort. And as these machines are limited to 16 GB of RAM, 2 displays and - the point of this article - has software compatibility/availability issues the early adopters are either people using the M1 Mac as a secondary machine (to their Intel Mac or their iPad Pro) or were entry level device types who relied mostly on first party software and web/browser stuff anyway. Add in 1Q 2021 and that is 5-6 million people that have bought M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini and 13' MBPs. M1 Macs were only available less than half that time, plus people and especially enterprises didn't stop buying Intel Macs either. Intel macOS apps (hundreds of millions of devices)ĬhromeOS platform support (according to the latest Statcounter have 2% market share, Google claims that they are almost 5%) Are you kidding me? You believe that these developers should make native M1 Mac ports their #1 priority when these Macs are like 0.5% of the market at best?

Audacity mac m1