One of the consequences of this move will be to flush out tens or hundreds of thousands of applications from the App Store.
Why?
It's a simple matter of economics: Creating apps for iOS is, and has been, for a long time, unprofitable for most developers. Last I looked, most can't earn a living, which means they are working for far less than what they could otherwise earn doing something else.
A good deal of the existing 32 bit apps are simply going to die off as developers abandon them.
This could be good, of course, as it might improve discoverability in certain categories. Time will tell.
Why?
It's a simple matter of economics: Creating apps for iOS is, and has been, for a long time, unprofitable for most developers. Last I looked, most can't earn a living, which means they are working for far less than what they could otherwise earn doing something else.
A good deal of the existing 32 bit apps are simply going to die off as developers abandon them.
This could be good, of course, as it might improve discoverability in certain categories. Time will tell.