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I would not be surprised if an iPhone without support for 32-bit apps came out within a few years. Apple has been pretty willing to break existing apps with iOS updates, so there's no real expectation that something which works today will continue to work indefinitely with no changes.


This.

Apple's track record proves that they are more than happy to drop anything more than a couple of years old if it means general forward progression.

My real bugbear is that to some extent they've created the modern day IE6 by not updating Safari on the old iPad.

Also, if you look at some legacy iOS apps on the Appstore (designed pre 6.x), they are pretty much 100% broken on 6.x+




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