Does iOS 9.3 herald a new release strategy?<article>
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Over the last almost-decade, Apple’s established a pretty consistent pattern when it comes to its mobile OS. Every year, the company launches a new major version of iOS, usually alongside a flagship smartphone release. After the new software hits, the subsequent months see a flurry of intermittent, smaller updates, usually fixing bugs, patching security, and perhaps even tweaking a minor feature or two.</p><p>
It’s pretty rare for Apple to use these point releases to add more substantial new features, but that’s just what happened this past week, when the company not only put out a beta version of iOS 9.3 for developers, but also
posted a page of the not-insignificant features included in it. As my savvy colleague Jason Snell pointed out, it was a good way to upend the traditional pattern wherein a beta is released to developers, and media outlets trip over themselves to be the first to find all the features squirreled away within it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3023032/ios/does-ios-9-3-herald-a-new-release-strategy.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Does iOS 9.3 herald a new release strategy?
