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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:24AM (#30116724)
Then they could have done it in 2021 with the release of Monterrey. Heck, Monterrey was released before Omicron, so if we're concerned about COVID that should have been less disruptive than doing it now.
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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by diebeforei485 on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:52AM (#30203349)
This wouldn't have worked either. Lots of countries, where vaccines weren't widely available yet, were going through a huge Delta wave before and after WWDC.

Now that most places have vaccines, it probably doesn't make sense to wait for the next major release because this has already been long delayed.

Other factors could have also been at play - perhaps Apple Inc had a lot of internal tools on 2.X and has only recently gotten around to migrating all of those.

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