I fully understand that one day, we will live in a 64-bit only world. I'm not upset about this. Using AIR, I don't have to change a single line of code to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. It is handled by the compiler. Beautiful. My problem is with my the customers. Adobe did not make an announcement that they would be ending 32-bit support by AIR 30, so go prepare yourself. It is not laid out in the AIR Roadmap. We had no warning that support for our customers was going to abruptly end. They just sprung it on us. We are talking about thousands of AIR developers with millions of customers who will suddenly be unable to update their apps. Sure we can re-release, but everyone here knows that users are not necessarily tech savvy. They wil think "I have an app on my iPad that is working, but I never get updates....hmmmm". It will never cross their mind to actually go and re-download an app that they already have installed. It wouldn't cross my mind. You know why? Because I have never had to until right now! If Adobe wants to make a move this big, they should at least give us an email as Flash Builder users, or a note in their Roadmap, or a sticky in this forum that says "We will not support 32-bit after AIR 40. Be prepared." I could handle that. But they didn't. They snuck it in a beta build. But even that being said, I see no reason to stop supporting hybrid apps until Apple says you have to, because they are still very useful devices. I am typing on an iPad 3 right now and I LOVE IT, and j can still get brand new shiny and supported apps for it on the App Store right now. Apple hasn't turned this into a paper weight yet.
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