Comment by gdxhyrd

What a load of BS. The 32-bit ABI is independent of the 64-bit one. Nobody is asking Apple to backport new changes or APIs to 32-bit because nobody cares about new apps in 32-bit. We do care about not breaking the existing ones, though.

The rest of your arguments about storage size, update time, "optimization" etc. are not just irrelevant, but also solved more than a decade ago without penalties in other operating systems.

The funniest thing is the last one about 2010 devs. Go ahead, go back in time to 2010 and tell everybody to make their hundreds of millions of LOC and third party dependencies (many without source) and duplicate their testing cost just so that Apple cannot be blamed to drop 32-bit support ten years later.

Let me tell you the reality: Apple is a hardware company, not software. Apple cares about selling iPhones, not enterprise long-term support or non-casual gaming. On the other hand, Linux and Microsoft and other companies care about users and customers and they are paid for that because they are a software shop. That's the difference.