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Apple Reportedly Starts Work on iOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3
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I think this is Cook's software motto. Thanks, you hit it perfectly.I can't wait for WWDC 2025, a.k.a. the "Do you feel Lucky?" event.
Nobody believes Cook any more. Keynote features are never really delivered for months after the September release.
The problem here is that the core OS team moves on to iOS 19 and leaves the iOS 18 bugs to a bunch of inexperienced probably off-shore developers that don't have the needed experience to fix them because they did not create the bugs.
This explains why Apple's OSes are so bug ridden these days. The core OS team should stay on the development version at least through release and probably through x.2.
This would make so much more sense.
Also should be done for devices and chips.
iPhone25
iPhone SE25
iPhone Pro25
iPad 25
iPad Air25
iPad Pro25
ect.
But this way it would be easy to see what your device is.
I.E. You’d have an iPad 25 with A23 chip or iPad Pro25 with M25 chip or iPad Air25 with M24 chip and in the future iPadOS 26
We all experience these bugs, and have for a while. Mail search is unusable. Messages often fail to sync between phone/desktop. Safari can't handle some basic websites. The list of basic, dumb, annoying, long-time bugs is very very long.
It's almost as if they don't use their own products.
I think that Tim Cook should be contractually required to spend 24 hours with an average "Apple Family" once a quarter, and witness how these things actually adversely affect average users.
I really think that Apple's forced yearly feature upgrade release cycle has done much more harm than good to their software.
Not suggesting he has no say, but my reaction is to the vast amounts of MR users who blame Cook for software issues in a forum, when his responsibility is the success of Apple. It's just silly and pointless. Tim isn't going into engineering planning meetings and saying things like "no, Craig, don't fix those bugs; put AI in instead!" I would venture to say that his responsibilities do not include engineering excellence or making sure every bug forum users are pissed about is squashed.
Not to mention, Apple is a huge company with thousands of software engineers. If bugs aren't being resolved, there are so so many more people involved and "to blame". Blaming people is pointless, but if forum users want to get mad, at least direct it to someone who is likely to actually be responsible.
Aren't they always working on the next version, esp. after disclosing the current version? I don't see the point of this post.
Gurman has to release an article every day or two or he gets the chokey.
That explains why half the features don't come until 6 months after the initial release.
I've been hoping for a UI change since about iOS 16; I thought iOS 17 would have done the UI change but I for sure thought that iOS 18 would have been the winner, but I was proven wrong. I though part of the reason why we got the UI change in iOS 7 was because the UI was getting "stale" but my theory is because Scott Forstall had gotten booted and they didn't like him and/or the skeuomorphism
Well, he is the CEO so he's really the one that says how it's going to be, whether they like it or not
Why have new features at all!
Just make a "new version" each year so that every few years they can force folks to upgrade their iPhone to "stay compatible with the latest version"
What Apple present in the WWDC is their roadmap for the next OS version. Some are large features and others are smaller. They release most in the falll when the phones are released and the #.0 Os launches. They launch with as many features as are ready. Some features cannot be completed within that fixed time period. In the past they would put out the new features whether they were ready or not. Now they wait until the feature is done and ship it then.
I much prefer the stability of features launching when they are ready. Squeezing into an arbitrary launch date is a recipe for more bugs.
There is no real downside to not have all of the features at initial launch date. We should be able to wait to eat the marshmallow.
I am extremely surprised your comment has not been removed by the MacRumors moderation team by now. My comments — even remotely deviating from the topic or saying silly things, get removed within an hour or so of posting.
I still remember we use to pay $29 for MacOS updates Versions
I went to a middle school called sequoia. In PE, we ended our jumping jacks by spelling out sequoia. None of us will ever forget how to spell it… lol
“S-E-Q-U-O-I-A SEQUOIA!”