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tzeshan said:

Ofer said:

Any idea on whether it will be M1 native?

Of course, a simple recompile will do. That does not cost Microsoft anything.

No it would not. It is not as simple. That is also reason why some software could not work when Apple moved to from HFS to APFS. I wonder how much work expereince you have in migrating software and retesting. Probably not much. I have seen this attitude "recompile and run" few times in business over three decades in IT now and it was not too good. Mostly this is idea of young and immature people.

ravnorodom said:

Can you imagine no monthly cost for Adobe Suite? That would be $9000 for the whole suite.

neilm said:

That 35.5GB free space requirement is surprisingly large for an installer that itself is “only” a bit over 12GB for the complete Big Sur version. Apple has made some useful changes to iOS to allow system updates to be smaller and install within reduced free storage space. Sound like the macOS group should be talking to their colleagues about that.

It’s been our experience at the office that most ordinary users don’t really keep track of disk space (and some don’t even know how), forcing me to stop buying 256GB Macs, even though we’re nominally working from file servers.

Regardless how big it is, first obligation of any installer software for few decades now on any OS is to check free space on disk and give some buffer for potential other operations (rollback, recovery from installation failure e.t.c.) not to lose users data. Users data take priority over any OS or vendor software. Apparently arrogance of vendors like Apple grew to levels of Microsoft in '90 and post 2000 as I remember. They would learn big lesson if they entered for example financial industry if they lost any data and got sued by big banks over time for outages and recovery during disaster recovery processes.

To few posters here on forum: You should stop blaming users - they create market and Apple like any other should follow - that is vendor guilt to create some schemes and not to listen to customers. You drink too much CoolAid from Apple if you think opposite is true and keep blaming users of Apple products (one of reasons I am partially moved to Android base devices including phone after years with iPhones).

Second NOTHING justifies locking Apple locking access to data owned by people even in security schemes. I noticed that even security is so skewed on Big Sur after upgrading that downloading older Catalina just to make USB stick so it could be used on other computer  and you cannot remove that downloaded file from Big Sur unless you go through hoops of disabling SIP (Apple, really? Cannot remove downloaded files to clean up disk in Application space? No wonder that regular user who does not care about crazy steps of SIP may run out of space by mistake just by accumulating some files and apps).

People still prefer local storage rather than iCloud (and cloud in general) because:

1. They are in control of their data - not cloud vendor.
2. They do not want to pay subscription for cloud storage for gigabytes of dormant data they have and daily use maybe 5% of their data (maybe it is time to use something like AWS Glacier for fraction of cost by Apple and others which is deeper storage with different SLAs, but I understand that easy money for cloud vendors is better approach).
3. They do not want anybody manipulate their data for unknown reasons let alone not be sure if it is always secure or could be lost.
4. They learned that data is information about people who became product for analytics running companies - they do not want to be product and prefer making choices without being fed with commercials and ads.

Welcome to what LG was already making in their V series for about a year. Five cameras was in 2018. Also Welcome to Android OLED world. Maybe this time all those iOS devices will not look yellow on display when put side by side with Androids. Well even 2010 iPad holds white balance better than newer Apple devices with no yellow tint (and still works on iOS 10)