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It was longer than Apple’s move to 64 bit apps on the iPhone.

Actually, depending on what action you pin dates to, it was twice as long.

One other thing - you can’t run non-64 bit apps anymore. You can still run Python 2.



That's a pretty low bar. I still think that move by Apple was pretty terrible. Especially given that it's 100% impossible to downgrade iOS (your last point).


And it’s entirely impossible to run 32 bit apps on newer Apple ARM chips. There is always a cost to keeping old APIs or in Apple’s case, old silicon.


It's actually longer than android has been alive...




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