[dwaite]

I suspect Apple considers developers ignoring a five(?) year notice period that 32 bit compatibility will be dropped a sign that the publisher has already abandoned their software.

[incrudible]

A "notice" doesn't pay bills. If the cost of porting over is expected to exceed future revenue, the publisher can not be expected to foot the bill.

[_pigpen__]

Moreover, for a quoted company, Sarbanes Oxley makes it difficult to spend money on this kind of activity.

[yardstick]

How so?

[andybak]

"Abandoned"? Is that another word for "finished"?

[judge2020]

Expecting old software to be backwards compatible forever is unrealistic. Even modern 64-bit Windows doesn't support 16 bit applications, and the only reason this isn't a problem is because of how long ago they were of any importance.

Old software still lives on in emulation and old hardware. If a developer doesn't feel the need to keep it updated for new hardware, it can join the outdated hardware it was made for in the archive.