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So should Apple have kept compatibility with 32 bit apps? PPC apps? 68K apps? Apple does release security fixes and released one for the 2012 circa iPhone 5S l
by scarface74 4y ago
So should Apple have kept compatibility with 32 bit apps? PPC apps? 68K apps?
Apple does release security fixes and released one for the 2012 circa iPhone 5S last September. But once it dropped support for all 32 bit apps, it didn’t have to carry it forward to new Macs and was able to remove support from the processor itself.
- amelius 4y agoWhy not? Given Apple's growth, they can hire a person for every release of their OS and keep them working on backports of security issues without problems.
- scarface74 4y agoEvery piece of code you have to maintain is technical debt and increases the surface area of bugs and vulnerabilities. There is no hardware support for 32 bit apps in the newest ARM chips. Should they also ship both a 68K, PPC, and 32 bit capable x86 VM with Macs? Why stop at software compatibility, why shouldn’t modern MacBooks come with SCSI and ADB ports? Why shouldn’t Apple desktop computers still support Nubus?
- amelius 4y agoWe were talking about security updates.
- scarface74 4y agoSo should they update MacTCP for System 7 for my old 68K Mac LC II? They already provide updates for phones and iPads back to 2013 as recently as last month. That was the first phone that supported LTE. Any phone older than that will soon be inoperable as the carriers shut down their 3G network.