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>I think backwards compatibility is a bigger stumbling block than support for peripherals. The recent Catalina update that caused a bunch of older programs to
by alasdair_ 7y ago
>I think backwards compatibility is a bigger stumbling block than support for peripherals.
The recent Catalina update that caused a bunch of older programs to simply stop functioning strongly implies Apple doesn't care that much about being backwards-compatible any more.
- dylan604 7y agoBut they never really have. iDevices seems shorter than laptop/desktop, but either way, they definitely have short support in terms if iOS hardware compatibility.
- gumby 7y agoThere were many years of warnings that 32 bit apps would ultimately stop running. It was hardly a surprise. As for hardware lifetime...I’m still using a 2014 iPad, 2015 iPhone and only stopped using my 2015 MacBook because it got caught in the rain.
- kalleboo 7y agoMy theory is that the 64-bit only migration was done to weed out old apps and APIs that won't be ported to ARM and won't work in emulation. Killing 32-bit removed stuff like classic QuickTime and the whole Carbon API.