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Doubt it also. Making a dual product line adds substantial design work and logistics costs, with an effect of slowing down the transition, since you have to support both products for the same time range.
Apple does not like to mix things up, and migrations periods have always been in "binary" mode : once a product line gets the new architecture, the other one is dropped : it was like this in the 68k-PPC transition as well as the PPC-intel transition.
Contrary to Microsoft which favors long-term support of legacy architecture, Apple likes making transition easy and swift (through seamless emulation especially), but also radical. Remember Rosetta, which ran so well to emulate PPC code ? It was supported only 5 years and a half, which is roughly a Mac's support period.
Apple does not like to mix things up, and migrations periods have always been in "binary" mode : once a product line gets the new architecture, the other one is dropped : it was like this in the 68k-PPC transition as well as the PPC-intel transition.
Contrary to Microsoft which favors long-term support of legacy architecture, Apple likes making transition easy and swift (through seamless emulation especially), but also radical. Remember Rosetta, which ran so well to emulate PPC code ? It was supported only 5 years and a half, which is roughly a Mac's support period.