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by jevinskie 3372 days ago
App thinning is orthogonal to ENABLE_BITCODE. The App Store could have been thinning app binaries years ago (literally just `lipo -thin`). Apple likely wanted ENABLE_BITCODE for better app store verification and perhaps architecture re-targeting in the future. I very much doubt the latter because Apple seems to have no compunctions about forcing developers to use newer SDKs, rebuilding apps for WatchOS or tvOS, or aggressively deprecating 32-bit only apps in the App Store.