Hmmm.
You now bar the larger memmory sizes, 64 hasn't been embraced fully just yet.
I think its good for apple to push for this, at some point, people will want to go beyond 4gb ram slots.
Or to put it in another perspective most pcs are 64 bit and have 8gb ram unless you get the 4gb models.
Here's the thing, 99.9% of all software on pc is still 32 bit though a few are 64 bit but not 64 bit exclusively.
A lot of the blind programs, nvda, all our games especially the aging vb6 stuff is 32 bit.
So if pcs were going that way we'd have to put a petition to stop them doing that because everything we have won't be able to migrate.
What scares me is how much we still depend on the old x86 structure.
x86 systems can support up to 4gb ram but thats it.
No more, no less.
We were happy to abandon 16 bit apps, dos, the old fat 2gb disk space, the newer fat32 disk alocations, though a lot of flash drives and such only support up to 32 gb of space on fat and fat32 systems on a lot of the book players.
Ntfs is faster but not all of that is switched.
I do think that where it must start sadly is the smart phone sector.
Back in the early days of sonnar's history we tried to release audiogame hub I think it was the first public as 64 bit but don't quote me on it.
I found it wouldn't install or run on my 32 bit system.
Still it made me think maybe I would upgrade just maybe it was a new era.
But with complaints and the like we went back to 32 bit and dropped the 64 bit build.
In my dad's work they had office and I was pushing for us to go 64 bit because we had a rated system with the extra ram and the os only to be told there was no advantage for us to upgrade to 64 bit at all.
And maybe its just it.
64 bit processers can handle 32 bit software.
We are so comfortable in this reguard we think it will go for ever.
And it may in deed do that for a while.
However we all know we will eventually have to switch.
The newest intel processers and tech will not run on anything older than win10 and ms keeps threatening to drop 32 bit windows.
Weather they would be able to drop 32 bit support entirely is another thing.
But the fact apple is doing it while really disruptive will clean them out.
It will also show us users who is active and or not.
More importantly it will stimulate others to go fully 64 bit.
If apple does it then google will probably do that with android.
And when that happens others will sit up and take a more active interest.
I am unsure about pcs, but to be honest if ms dropped windows 32 bit I wouldn't care that much.
The only disadvantage to 32-64 bit is that program sizes are just a lot bigger half as big.
Example the windows update released this month was 500mb or round that for 32 bit, its double with 64 bit.
Why is that the case?
Also while I know we do have lightspeed fibre, half speed vdsl, standard speed dsl, quarter speed wireless and the like a few still do use dialup or have poor quality connections.
So who knows.
Saying that I updated apps on our ios devices yesterday.
several apps the smaller one the smallest was 5mb but they average round 60-80mb, with a mid range round 200-300mb, however I have seen a 500mb app and I think with computers and apps mirroring smartphones maybe someone has to move and say no more 32 bit and others will try to take notice.
Its more complex for desktops but to be honest though it may disrupt me a great deal I see no problem with in long term.