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danox said:

AutoCAD is garbage on the Mac, if you want to draw construction drawings and do 3D/BIM work use Vectorworks or Archicad, along with Bluebeam. All of their programs support Apple Silicon Mac’s now.  Revit and Navis are no-shows and probably will never make it over onto Apple OS.

strange thing cad programs are like word processing programs. Once you have experience on one, takes hardly anytime to learn another. The exception to that rule is learning Revit combined with Windows ribbons is a Bim abomination.

https://www.nemetschek.com/en/brand/vectorworks

https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/architect

https://graphisoft.com/solutions/archicad

https://www.nemetschek.com/en/brand/bluebeam

Bluebeam is not supported on the Mac. They dropped Mac support a few years ago. We use this where I work and everyone that has a Mac and needs Bluebeam has to have Parallels to use the Windows version. 

https://support.bluebeam.com/articles/revu-for-mac-end-of-life-eol-announcement/

StrangeDays said:

Space Karen still wiping our value, I see 

HAHAHAHA!!!! Space Karen!!! 

I fail to see how taking a company like Apple which has record profits doesn't just keep going status quo. It's not like they cannot afford it. I'm glad Apple isn't following suit and being ridiculous in laying people off because they "think" a recession is coming at some point but it would be nice to see them just not putting extra profits over keeping employees happy. 

Maybe Apple doesn't have a say in what a specific store does with your information, but Apple should still be able to make it so developers have to go through Apple with a paid developer account and submit the app to Apple for inspection/verification regardless of what store(s) it's submitted to. 

In the end, I think most people will just keep using Apple's App Store and those who want to have a separate store will see what Apple is doing and how expensive it is to do it successfully. I wouldn't be surprised to see a few stores open and then slowly fade away as they cannot afford to remain open. Also, not every developer will use a 3rd party store and I don't think it's imperative for them to do so in order to remain in business. It would have to be a situation where a 3rd party App Store would get an exclusive to some popular apps in order for things to majority change and I doubt any 3rd party store has the funding to do that on a large scale. 

It would be nice if Apple could just make a decent regular 4K display for around $1000. It doesn't need to have speakers, cameras, mics, etc. Just a simple nice 4K panel in an aluminum enclosure.