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by katbyte 1027 days ago
You seem to be forgetting that every app in the App Store would need to be rebuilt.. and developers would need to buy in and do so
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Make it a requirement in order to ship a new version, developers would do it in an instant. Just like they did with 64bit builds.

Sure, a small number of apps would fall to the wayside. But it’s not like Apple has hesitated to do that before.

I think you are grossly underestimating the number of apps that no longer see regular updates/have active developers
I think you’re grossly overestimating how many of those apps are actually used regularly. Even if Apple only got 15% of the entire App Store available on x64 it would fulfill the needs of almost all users.