10-20% of pulls of Docker Official Images coming from Apple M1 machines

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Very happy with my M1 MacBook Air (16GB RAM) so far. Web programming is a breeze. Xcode is great. Surprisingly good at running games.

However Android development is still a ways off. Android Studios is not officially supporter, neither is Flutter. Hopefully google adds full support soon

I can echo this exactly - 16GB RAM M1 MacBook Air, runs like a dream except for Android development, which is sluggish and downright broken. I can't even compile some APKs - I can't use an ARM JDK, and rosetta 2 fails during compilation, so I've got a separate laptop just for Android dev, which is less than ideal.

Other than that, no complaints! A fanless, performant laptop is a dream.

I posted that, specifically thats of pulls from Docker Desktop (so developers) and I said "of some images" its unevenly distributed, but about 9% overall from Desktop. Given that around half of Docker Desktop users are on Windows, it does mean adoption of M1 Macs is growing quite fast for developers.

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