I still wonder what the real agenda behind bitcode might be. It's hard to imagine it's only to make binary size a tiny bit smaller: it would surely have been e

I still wonder what the real agenda behind bitcode might be. It's hard to imagine it's only to make binary size a tiny bit smaller: it would surely have been easier and faster to have Xcode just categorize each application's assets and binaries by screen size and architecture, eg by pushing a ZIP (or whatever) file of separate binaries. This is assuming otool or a similar utility can't extract individual architectures out of a fat binary, which I imagine you can probably cleanly do as well. The app control thing does have me worried, those concerns are undeniable.