I’d love to see Apple adopt a tick-tock approach to software releases<div class="feat-image">

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Bloomberg report suggests that next year could be <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/23/apple-focusing-on-software-quality-improvements-ios-27-next-year-report/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a Snow Leopard-style update[/url] for each of Apple’s operating systems. In other words, the company will prioritize working on bug fixes and reliability over new features.</p>
<p>The timing of this claim seems dubious to me: as Gurman himself acknowledges, Apple absolutely
has to introduce a lot of <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI[/url] improvements next year, so I don’t see how it can possibly qualify as a bug-fix year. Timing aside, however, this is something I would love to see …</p>
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I’d love to see Apple adopt a tick-tock approach to software releases