Since the appearance of the new M1 and M2 chips for the Macbook Pro, it is no longer possible to create a Windows image on your computer, perhaps the reflection will be put on the table. Especially since some solutions are offered exclusively on iOS (SiteScan for ArcGIS).
Hi everybody. I am a newbie ArcGIS Pro user who would be very glad to see this software natively supported for Mac OS. The could really leverage the elaboration power of the apple silicons... Do you know if ESRI is making some sort of assessment to see how many apple users are out there wishing the same thing I wish? Is there a way to "lobby" this? I use Parallels only for a small Italian energy app, from a small firm which I understand has not the resources to make the porting, but for ESRI is quite different. It's a shame to use ArGis Pro under emulation, considering that smaller counterparts has the Mac OS version. Where can we have some voice?
I wanted to reach out here to provide some communication on this request especially because we see that it periodically receives additional kudos and comments. We actively use the ArcGIS Ideas site to understand how we can continue to improve the software to meet your needs. We are listening - you are being heard, but we are not able to implement every request that we get. There are always a multitude of factors to balance when considering what is feasible to develop, and investing the time and effort to create desktop GIS software that runs natively on Mac has not outweighed other areas of development to meet the needs of our broad and diverse user base.
While there is no plan to pursue this request, it is important to stay up to date on this help topic: Run ArcGIS Pro on a Mac. Of course we see in the comments that everyone is aware you can run on Parallels. Note that when Apple's M-series processors were first released we were seeing stability issues when testing on those machines. That story has changed and we continue our performance and stability testing of ArcGIS Pro running on Mac's and strive to communicate through that help topic.
Thank you for your continued communication through ArcGIS Ideas.
Since ESRI can't redraw Pro to leave windows api an since window is far from being fully implemented in RISC, doesn't expect a Mac version anytime soon.
First we will need to see Windows RISC take a big part of sales. Then ESRI will optimize it an, maybe, a Mac version will be in the loop.
For now, Intel still on the desktop word of win machine so, why use resources to first make a fully new version when you can said to clients, buy old pc processors.
