Link: ‘Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans’

Interesting observations by Inertial Lemon about the potential hidden meaning behind one of Apple’s new policies in iOS 9.

To (over)simplify, apps are partially compiled and optimized for your device before you download them. This allows a degree of future-proofing, as apps can be optimized by newer versions of iOS and OS X for hardware that didn’t even exist when those apps were written.

This could mean a transition from Intel to ARM on the Mac is more possible, which is the angle Inertial Lemon’s article goes with. However, it could also simply mean better backwards-compatibility, as old software can be automatically updated for newer OS and hardware. Either way, it’s a bigger deal than Apple represented at WWDC.