Apple says that 10.13 High Sierra is the last macOS major version that will run 32-bit Intel Mac apps "without compromise." If the transition goes anything like iOS, this means we are staring down the ...

There has been some confusion about the status of 32-bit apps in macOS 10.14 Mojave, which will be available soon (for free). I’ve got advice for you on handling the upcoming transition from ...

Check right now what 32-bits apps you still have, because they won't run at all after you've upgraded to Apple's macOS Catalina in September. No one can say that Apple hasn't given us enough warning ...

Like clockwork, Apple churns out each fall a new version of the software that powers its Macintosh computers, touting cool and useful new things it can do. This year, the updated operating system is ...

"What nobody noticed was that the Pixel 7 is also dropping 64-bit app support, so its release yesterday is taking a big step toward Android's 64-bit-only future." Little typo to point out here, I ...

Windows 10X began as a streamlined operating system for the Surface Neo, a premium mobile device with two screens that opened like a book. Now Microsoft seems poised to use the OS to power laptop ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft Windows is its generally excellent approach to backwards compatibility. Thanks to a mixture of virtual machine support and native OS capabilities, you can generally ...

We’re nearing 32-bit-ageddon with the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina sometime in October 2019. The new version of macOS marks the end of old 32-bit apps whose software code was never refreshed to ...

Qualcomm‘s brand-new chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, lacks support for 32-bit Arm apps. Despite this limitation, Xiaomi’s 14 series, the first phones to use this chipset, can still run these ...

As per the original announcement in December 2017, Google Play will continue to support 32-bit apps for now, but as of August 1, 2019 all 32-bit apps must have a 64-bit version too. Google is ...

An obscure feature in Apple’s Xcode development software enabled Apple Watch apps to make an instant transition from 32-bit to 64-bit last month, an unheralded win for Apple Watch developers inside ...

Although 32-bit MCUs represented only 300 million of the nearly 6 billion total units shipped in 2003, they accounted for $2.4 billion in revenue, as shown in Fig. 1. Although 3.5 billion of the units ...