Why not? It certainly is the least “niche” product, and with probably by far the biggest number of users.
Not too many in the 3D/CAD/BIM sector. SketchUp, Cinema4D, Vectorworks, Archicad. The last two are Graphisoft/Nemetschek products. Autocad and Rhino development cycles are not synchronous across platforms.
You’re right. I guessed. Here is a list of the industries that Trimble caters to in both hardware and software:
Geospatial positioning is a big part of the picture, not least in agriculture. There’s a lot of that in the world, so I’m not sure it could be called “niche”!
But without seeing the income, and especially profit, streams for each sector or product, one can only really guess.
Folks should consider if their replies acknowledge the truth of what the OP has said, and contribute anything constructive or otherwise meaningful to the OP’s intended conversation.
The Corner Bar was started years ago for those who just wanted to come and chit chat. If the shoe fits…the bar.
Oh look… macOS Monterrey
How many can remember the Mac II running circles around Auto-CAD in the ‘80s? Multiple windows updating simultaneously live on mere MBs of memory. 100 MB hard drives for $1,000 plus.
@Last included Macs, not Trimble, but if they are wise…
Didn’t know the story of Steve and Graphisoft. Thanks Mike.
Here it is: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/steve-jobs-memorial-statue
Folks should consider if their replies acknowledge the truth of what the OP has said…
The truth hasn’t been acknowledged multiple times already? It is the denial and merely contrarian responses that contribute little.
Funny, I learned about it online, in a forum. 
NOT! (unless you hate the Mac). The Archicad interface is a haphazard collection of elements that have appeared in MacOs and Windows since the late 1980s: A MacPaint-style vertical toolbar, different from the rest of the toolbars that are windows-style. Pulldown menus. An odd properties bar. A zillion different modal windows. Some nonmodal windows. Functions scattered among these - some to be found in several places, some only in a nonmodal window opened by a pulldown submenu… Blender is almost clearer.
Both Archicad and Revit have some nice-to-have features that the other lacks but overall the feature set is fairly similar. The Revit interface packs a lot of functionality in roughly three elements (the big “hello kitty” type buttons at the top, the Properties window and the Project Browser tree. It looks a bit dull but I find it more powerful than the Archicad clutter.
Folks, haven’t you drifted off topic here?
Yes, sorry, fairly far.
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I never coud spel! 
32, now 33 replies, with maybe two relevant answers. Hmm?
I’ve been using SketchUp since the Monterrey Beta, and I didn’t have any issues, except I just got the new MacBook Pro 16 (fully loaded) and SU runs slower than in the intel Machine (both with Monterey).
It is a pity that Trimble is not taking advantage of any of the great technologies available in MacOS (like Metal, instead of OpenGL).
The following is from Wikipedia:
On iOS, tvOS, and macOS, Metal supports Apple-designed SoCs from the Apple A7 or newer. On macOS, Metal also supports Intel HD and Iris Graphics from the HD 4000 series or newer, AMD GCN, and AMD RDNA GPUs. NVIDIA GPUs are supported but Metal drivers for newer devices (10 Series and newer) are not available since macOS Mojave. [1.
Looks like the video drivers would need to be changed (re-written) to utilize Metal. I have no idea what changes are needed to the SketchUp program.
Did you find it to be much slower? For me, my Intel MacBook Pro came out only slightly faster in some tests, than my M1 iMac.
One interesting thing, I had a customer LayOut file a few days ago that had a lot of pages that needed the thumbnails updating. That triggered an issue where the file took a while to open. On my MacBook Pro it took about an hour, and on my iMac it took 20 minutes. There may be other aspects to the M1 system that makes things like file accessing be faster.
Not Monteray but latest Big Sur 11.6.1 has Layout running really slowly. Almost every action has a 2 to 3 second delay with whirling beachball of death on show until the action then takes place. If upgrading to Monterey will fix this then great.
Hello, i updated my Mac Mini Silicon M1 to Monterrey and my spanish version of Sketchup 2021 does not even open.
Best to remove the folder from the applications, empty the trashbin and reinstall it again.
What is the order in system preferences of the installed languages?
SketchUp should use the top one and revert to the english version if that doesn’t exist.
