Adobe Lightroom CC v4.1 Brings Native Apple M1 Support

The whole industry hasn’t. A lot of companies still offer their products as a purchase, instead of as a rent. Some companies offer both models, with certain differences to entice customers into the subscription model.

As a customer, I don’t find compelling renting software, so I’ll stick with traditional purchase model or move to open source. I haven’t followed adobe since I ditched lightroom, but if memory serves, it hasn’t been a plethora of updates since the move to subscription only.

The whole industry has moved... you just haven't realized it yet.

Look at the largest players in this market: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc. Look at all of the games studios, including the biggest ones (Blizzard, Epic, etc.).

It's only a matter of when, if they have not moved already. You can always find exceptions of course, just as you can still find a horse-drawn buggy.

And there have been lots of updates to Lightroom, except that they trickle in one or two at a time per update. You might not realize it because they don't come in a pack of 50 features at once.

What many customers like you do not realize, is that customers expect things from software that were *never* expected of software when it was sold in a box on a floppy disk or even CD. You want security updates? New features after release? These were never expected of traditional software. You were lucky to get a patch for a bug fix, once or twice, but certainly not at the frequency they come at now. (And software now is a lot more complicated, so there are more problems.) More frequent updates are never truly free. Someone's gotta get pay the developers. Since the requirements have changed, it's only sensical for business models to change too.

this seems to be a popular software for reviewers of the M1 to use so I look forward to a slew of YouTube videos comparing performance of the M1 in rosetta vs native using this app even though I will never use it myself

Though LR Classic is undoubtedly more powerful, count me in the camp of users who prefer "CC" (Adobe dropped CC from the name BTW - it's just Lightroom). It feels like a modern app. Classic's interface with cloud files is messy and the UI is cluttered. I just wish Lightroom and LR Classic had feature parity.

For real?

Yeah, some import/export tests were slower than Rosetta 2 or even Intel CPUs.

The whole industry has moved... you just haven't realized it yet.

Look at the largest players in this market: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc. Look at all of the games studios, including the biggest ones (Blizzard, Epic, etc.).

It's only a matter of when, if they have not moved already. You can always find exceptions of course, just as you can still find a horse-drawn buggy.

And there have been lots of updates to Lightroom, except that they trickle in one or two at a time per update. You might not realize it because they don't come in a pack of 50 features at once.

What many customers like you do not realize, is that customers expect things from software that were *never* expected of software when it was sold in a box on a floppy disk or even CD. You want security updates? New features after release? These were never expected of traditional software. You were lucky to get a patch for a bug fix, once or twice, but certainly not at the frequency they come at now. (And software now is a lot more complicated, so there are more problems.) More frequent updates are never truly free. Someone's gotta get pay the developers. Since the requirements have changed, it's only sensical for business models to change too.

I’ll just remind you that apple software is pay once (fcpx, logic pro x, there isn’t even an option to rent those), microsoft also offers perpetual licenses of windows and office, just two of the examples you provided.

I’m not bothering citing you the miriad of games and programs you can purchase as pay once.

The trend is to rent software, that’s undeniable, but I have a right to not like it and vote with my wallet.

Ok, installed, compared to the pre-M1 version this can utilize all 8 cores when exporting RAW to JPG - but I actually find this worse than before, since when I let Lightroom export photos even the mouse cursor starts freezing and whole OS is unusable... before it took a bit longer but I could normally work since it could use only around 50% of cores if I remember correctly...
Memory usage is still heavy, Lightroom consuming ~12.5GB (which on my Mac Mini with 8GB RAM means swap :) ), but that is okay, memory should be used if it improves performance...