One Year Later…
Tim Cook Sends Company-wide Email in Honor of Hundredth iOS 9.3 Beta
In an email sent to employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered his congratulations to the iOS development team on the release of the one-hundredth Public Beta release of iOS 9.3. The memo comes on the heels of recent public criticism regarding the company's continued work on the update despite iOS 10's debut nearly six months prior, as well as Apple's announcement of the upcoming iOS 11 at a media event last week. The full email has been posted by 9to5Mac.
As a major update to the iOS 9 operating system, iOS 9.3 introduces several long-awaited features. Night Shift mode, introduced with iOS 10.0 last fall, reduces the amount of blue light users are exposed to in the evening by shifting the display of an iOS device to a warmer, more yellowish color spectrum. Improvements to CarPlay and Apple News are also included, as well as additional Quick Actions for included apps and support for multiple Apple Watches.
Apple is planning to launch iOS 9.3 this summer.
No that wasn't the full post. You must have received the abridged version. The extended version also included this:
iOS 9.3 Public Beta 100 is Apple's most bloated iOS ever with millions of lines of code for hundreds of buried functions, obnoxious nag screens, and ambiguous error messages that will be useful to tens of people. You all helped in creating a point update that truly does nothing to alleviate the annoyances of iOS and bringing true meaning to the phrase "it's a feature not a bug."
iOS 9.3 has thousands of them, none which you will ever need to fix because of your innovations in enabling us to accelerate our hardware obsolesce plan. The technology you gave us to paint a number next to our A chips means last year's hardware can be ignored when a bigger number appears out of my hat. Problem. Solved. That is Apple 2016 and I'm so, so proud of you all.
And Apple shareholders will marvel at how these tiny bits of irrelevancy stack up to big profits as customers are sent to the high end models out of fear there won't be enough useable space on our standard 16GB entry level hardware. So while our iOS 9.3 users will enjoy outstanding shades of yellow as they dose off, we'll be seeing nothing but green 24/7.