As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released the first 64-bit iPhone last year, the iPhone 5S, developers worried about the new system and the major changes Apple was making as far as software development environment was concerned. A few months ago, many new devices by Apple Inc. have made their entrance into the market, all of which feature the new 64-bit architecture within their system. This shift from the 32-bit to the 64-bit architecture is a new one for software developers who work on the mobile platform, as previously all smartphones functioned in the 32-bit realm.
However, the 64-bit architecture is more powerful and more capable than the 32-bit architecture that smartphones generally inhabit within their systems. With the new iOS 8 also working with the 64-bit architecture, it seems like the time is right for developers to ease into the new architecture without worrying that the system may not support their applications.
The biggest rival that Apple Inc. systems iOS running devices currently have in the market are all those devices that run on the Android OS, which is developed and distributed by Google Inc. The Android OS system is still currently only able to run on 32-bit architecture, without any sort of support for the 64-bit system. Hence, all those phones and devices that run on the Android OS currently operate on the 32-bit architecture, and still far behind in technological capacity and capability that Apple devices are now moving towards.
In the past year, this improvement in technology has not been able to give Apple Inc. any noticeable benefit as far as device performance or capability/capacity is concerned. Applications running on the 64-bit architecture, the few that existed, did not do any more wonders that 32-bit architecture systems were able to perform. This lack of difference in functionality of applications on both the systems has not garnered Apple Inc. any noticeable advantage after the introduction of a 64-bit architecture within its devices, even though the new iOS 8 claims to be based and optimized for the 64-bit architecture system.
However, now developers are being encouraged to develop keeping in perspective the 64-bit architecture that all the newer Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) devices feature. Surely, the new iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPhones all feature the new 64-bit architecture system now. Hence, developers now can develop software applications on the 64-bit architecture for the iOS without worrying about compatibility issues, as there are not going to be any because all Apple devices are now running on the new architecture.
The new system offers good news for the developers working on applications for the iOS, because 64-bit architecture offers more memory management options, hardware base of a stronger nature, and more flexibility as far as the size of the applications is concerned. This, combined with the new A8 processor chip that Apple is now working with (which is 30% faster than previous A7 chip), is sure to result in a system that is not only smoother, but will also run faster and allow for larger-sized applications to function without any issue.
