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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Sigh. Yes, Apple is a hardware company and yes, Apple designed their operating systems to take advantage of the faster, more capable hardware. If you have faster, more capable machines, odds are pretty good you want an OS that can take advantage of it.
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Nobody said not to buy 64-bit hardware. Nobody said not to buy a 64-bit OS.
It is not unreasonable to ask for that shiny new 64-bit platform to continue supporting 32-bit apps, just like most every other 64-bit platform currently does. There is software that simply is not available in 64-bit. It could be because the developers are severely lagging in their updates. Or it could be because the software has been abandoned. Or maybe the user doesn't want to shell out more money to upgrade a program that works perfectly fine for them in 32-bit mode.
I agree with other posters who have said this is most likely a money ploy by Apple. Everything else they do pretty much is, so why not this? Apple makes good stuff. Way overpriced. Proprietary. And the company seems to have high disdain for their customers. So it's not out of character for them to drop support for 32-bit programs. Did anyone really expect different behavior?