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Apple Reportedly Starts Work on iOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3
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Apple doesn’t expect most people to upgrade their hardware every year. Most people wait 2,3, or more years between phones. When they are ready to buy, it helps to have a current phone for them, not some two-year old thing. That is a big part of why Apple continues to update their hardware. The other one is competition. If Samsung is updating their phones every year, Apple can’t wait two years for their updates.
If you are doing like most people and waiting a few years between devices, the upgrades do feel worthwhile.
^^^ This. In the modern era, any company developing software worth a few billion or more has a very large Product function to complement its engineering function, and one of the responsibilities of Product is creating and maintaining multi-year roadmaps. Even at smaller organizations, the somewhat reductionist “Now, Next, Later” framework is common and sometimes even expected at the Board level.
I’d actually be shocked if there hadn’t *already* been significant work underway on the next generation, probably with entire discrete teams.
Yes, This right here. I'm so sick of sitting in my car for a few minutes after I get to work to finish listening to a song and I'll happen to open some video or something and then it pauses the damn music. No I don't want that. play the audio of the video through the phone and leave the music streaming to my car alone...
I mean, they should be their own customers.
No better way to test and get user feedback than to start using your own things internally.
I give them bug reports and feature requests all the time. Go straight to /dev/null as far as I can tell
Hell I filed a complaint with the FCC on Frontier and actually saw something happened. There was feedback. There was back and forth. Frontier stopped doing the thing. Not saying it was my complaint that did it, but there it is
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Like every year, half of the features announced for iOS 18 won't be available at launch in September, but they started working on iOS19 (promises) ...
Unfortunately, this feedback mostly goes into a black hole. They don’t confirm that there’s an issue, that they’re looking into or that it’s going into the backlog. No follow-up or further information request. And most of the time, those issues will never be addressed. So why take time out of your busy day when you don’t even get as much as an acknowledgment?
Transparency goes a long way with customers but we all know Apple rather gets sued for millions of dollars than be transparent with us users…
You write that as if you assume many(most?) of us with issues haven't been doing that for the last… oh… I dunno… 20, 30+ years?
Over the years I have submitted multiple things — and yes, some do get fixed — but many such as this long term Mail sync issue specifically remain unfixed.
And as far as "Talk(ing) directly to the people who can make things better…"
Do you have a direct line so I can call? I mean I'd love to "Talk directly to the people who can make things better".
Common prole that I am, I just get a submission form and (if I'm lucky) an acknowledgement.
I really do not think that they actually take note of what comes through there.
We may as well be talking into the abyss.
They need to seriously rethink iPadOS since they are selling such an expensive and powerful hardware for it now (iPads are faster than original Macbook Air M1 but are far far more limited in terms of OS capabilities).
Seems like that they should be back to drawing boards and trying to understand the main concept for iPadOS (hint: it should not be a clone of an oversized iOS) to make it workable and acceptable.
Seems like that they should be back to drawing boards and trying to understand the main concept for iPadOS (hint: it should not be a clone of an oversized iOS) to make it workable and acceptable.
This isnt news. They would ALWAYS be "working" on more than 1 version ahead. They need to know where its going
The bug is (sort of) fixed in iOS18 beta 2 (FINALLY!). Badge in iOS' Mail app is cleared if e-mail is read on other device. It doesn't happen immediatedly (like for new e-mails), but after a few minutes. Not perfect, but still ... better few minutes than never.
It works properly even for old e-mail marked unread on other device.
