“Apple appears to have significantly improved the quality of its code over the past six months,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet.
“It’s fair to say that Apple got off to a really bad start with iOS 9,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “In fact, I’ll go as far as to say that it wasn’t ready, and was only released because Apple didn’t want to postpone the launch of the iPhone 6s.”
MacDailyNews Take: You can say the same thing about watchOS and tvOS, unfortunately.
“Now with the public release of the beta of iOS 9.3, it’s clear that Apple is firing on all cylinders yet again,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “Overall the operating system feels fast and solid, and nothing seems to be broken — important stuff like Wi-Fi and cellular seems to work after the upgrade — and the new features seem to work as they should.”
“One thing that really surprises me about this beta is how excited people are about the new features. And I don’t mean the folks such as you or I that swim in these waters daily, but ordinary people. I’ve had people ask me questions about the new features in iOS 9.3 that otherwise seem to have no interest in tech,” Kingsley-Hughes writes, “but they’re jazzed about a new iOS feature that we’ve only known about for a few days.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps Apple has taken the kvetching in some quarters about quality, focus, and execution to heart? Let’s hope so.