I agree with the sentiment. However, if enough people, or Taylor Swift, decide to tell Apple to GTFO, they will back down on a retarded idea, or at least modify

I agree with the sentiment. However, if enough people, or Taylor Swift, decide to tell Apple to GTFO, they will back down on a retarded idea, or at least modify it to a more (but not completely) acceptable extent. A good argument against the bitcode is the huge amount of open source libraries in C used by thousands of popular apps (such as openssl), which may not, or do not, particularly enjoy the bitcode treatment at AppStore.