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.
Complete and absolute nonsense.
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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"?
[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/photoshop-for-apple-...