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The hints of their desire to go this direction have been present for a few major versions now: advertisements creeping into installers, auto-updates to a new ma

The hints of their desire to go this direction have been present for a few major versions now: advertisements creeping into installers, auto-updates to a new major version that requires a paid upgrade, making non-subscription renewals more expensive and difficult, etc. Parallels never innovated anything; they got purchase as a cheaper, leaner, more consumer friendly alternative to VMware Fusion and maintained that as long as they could. Today the only value enhancement they really offer is a toolbar multi-tool (like a youtube downloader, etc.) Open source and/or free solutions had already gotten to parity with their core offering, and the ARM transition cemented their end. Their only real strategy at this point is to keep extracting money from their remaining customers who don't realize the product died on the vine a couple years ago. You could have been great, Parallels. Sorry to see it end this way.

yuhong 5y ago
openknot 5y ago
>"Open source and/or free solutions had already gotten to parity with their core offering, and the ARM transition cemented their end. Their only real strategy at this point is to keep extracting money from their remaining customers who don't realize the product died on the vine a couple years ago." My experience is the opposite. I purchased a Mac for the first time due to the M1 chips, and there is no other option I could find to emulate Windows on these chips except for Parallels (Boot Camp currently doesn't work on M1 chips, and VMWare Fusion only has a preview version for the chips currently available).
freedomben 5y ago
> Parallels never innovated anything; I don't have any love for Parallels, but I don't think this is true/fair. I bought Parallels in the late 00s because they had a "seamless" mode where Windows apps would sit in the tray at the bottom and seamlessly run as though they were native even though they were on the VM. At the time nobody else had that, so it was a killer feature. It felt like straight up magic at the time.
zamadatix 5y ago
> Parallels never innovated anything... and the ARM transition cemented their end. I switched to Parallels for the first time precisely because they were the first to support GPU accelerated Windows ARM64 VMs while Fusion sat back for a year and on release still doesn't support GPU acceleration. That said I'm now extremely turned off with how hard they've been pushing this app deal. I have 3 emails about it from the last week as well as the notification on my Mac.

yuhong 5y ago

openknot 5y ago

>"Open source and/or free solutions had already gotten to parity with their core offering, and the ARM transition cemented their end. Their only real strategy at this point is to keep extracting money from their remaining customers who don't realize the product died on the vine a couple years ago." My experience is the opposite. I purchased a Mac for the first time due to the M1 chips, and there is no other option I could find to emulate Windows on these chips except for Parallels (Boot Camp currently doesn't work on M1 chips, and VMWare Fusion only has a preview version for the chips currently available).

freedomben 5y ago

> Parallels never innovated anything; I don't have any love for Parallels, but I don't think this is true/fair. I bought Parallels in the late 00s because they had a "seamless" mode where Windows apps would sit in the tray at the bottom and seamlessly run as though they were native even though they were on the VM. At the time nobody else had that, so it was a killer feature. It felt like straight up magic at the time.

zamadatix 5y ago

> Parallels never innovated anything... and the ARM transition cemented their end. I switched to Parallels for the first time precisely because they were the first to support GPU accelerated Windows ARM64 VMs while Fusion sat back for a year and on release still doesn't support GPU acceleration. That said I'm now extremely turned off with how hard they've been pushing this app deal. I have 3 emails about it from the last week as well as the notification on my Mac.