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Not defending Apple, but one of the big transitions was stopping support for 32 bit apps. Even 20 years ago it was clear to anyone even mildly technical that 64
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Not defending Apple, but one of the big transitions was stopping support for 32 bit apps. Even 20 years ago it was clear to anyone even mildly technical that 64-bit apps were the immediate future. Continuing to develop 32-bit only apps well into the 2010s was a conscious decision by developers to limit the lifetime utility of their software to a few years at most.
- 1over137 3y agoIn the case of macOS though, Apple chose to make many APIs not work in 64 bit. So it wasn't just a matter of fixing all their pointer sizes, they needed to totally change frameworks too. i.e. Apple nuked their ecosystem from orbit.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> it was clear to anyone even mildly technical that 64-bit apps were the immediate future But dropping support for 32 bit apps was a conscious decision by Apple. Windows users rather complain until today that Microsoft dropped backward support for 16 bit apps under 64 bit Windows versions.