It's hard to say what he's up to since their drawing board is like 5 years out from what's being assembled today... but I think he may have had a hand in not only hardware design but in making some of the iOS functions that control hardware responses even more user-friendly. Anyway I've grown fond of being able to customize the Control Center, rather than have to launch the entire Settings to tweak "some little thing" that I may elect to switch up pretty often. Whoever has honed that in recent updates gets kudos from me. It's true that Control Center has been around for awhile, certainly before 2014. Early iterations were less customizable, what we have now is pretty cool.
If you were referring to any of these cameras in your comment about the next iPhone rivaling (I assume image quality maybe I assumed wrong) your Canon camera, I think it's quite obvious why it will definitely not rival (not even close) the image quality of your Canon.