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by kevingadd 2313 days ago
How does it benefit the user for half their software to break, or for them to have to pay a vendor (rightfully) for a massive update/overhaul just so the software keeps working?

64-bit Only benefits Apple because they don't have to maintain the 32-bit stack anymore. Any perf-sensitive software that needed to be 64-bit transitioned a long time ago.