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Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi discuss the state of Apple software with John Gruber

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Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior VP of Internet Software and Services, and Craig Federighi, Senior VP of Software Engineering, dropped by The Talk Show with John Gruber (http://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2016/02/12/ep-146) on Friday for an hour-long conversation that focused on the quality of Apple’s software and services, among other topics. It’s worth a listen, but if you’re just after the highlights, these are the parts we found the most interesting.</p><h2>On teasing iOS 9.3 before the public beta</h2>
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Last year, Apple rolled out (http://www.macworld.com/article/2946063/ios-9-public-beta-is-live-heres-everything-you-need-to-know.html) a public beta program (https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/welcome) for iOS 9, in addition to the existing public beta of OS X—Federighi says over a million people are participating altogether. Currently, iOS 9.3 is in public beta (http://www.macworld.com/article/3020749/ios/what-to-expect-in-ios-9-3-in-developer-beta-now.html), but when it was still only available to developers, Apple made the surprising move of teasing it with a marketing page on Apple.com (http://www.apple.com/ios/preview/), introducing features like Night Shift and new tools for educators to manage a classroom full of iPads.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3033057/ios/eddy-cue-and-craig-federighi-discuss-the-state-of-apple-software-with-john-gruber.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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