iOS 15 – Quality over Quantity?

Now that the public beta for the new iOS 15 has been out for more than a week now, and that I have been using it since then, I feel like there is something new to this OS everyday. Let me not tell you what its features are, but rather, why this might be an incredibly valuable release for Apple in the previous few years.

First up, there are these incremental changes, and YouTube is filled with all these crazy videos detailing more than 300 minute changes between iOS 14.6 and iOS 15, so you can check them out if you wish. But more importantly, this release, although in beta, I guess says more about the effort that was needed to make this release. 

Apple had to get a ton of things right to make sure that this new release was amazing, and I am not just saying it for the sake of saying, I do really believe that Apple usually does not release a feature/update to the public unless it is tested extensively before. Take the image-to-text feature, that can be used from the Camera app or from the Photos app. It seems incredible to see it and I know some might call it being available on Android first, but I doubt if the same people would agree it to be so good on any other device that does not run iOS 15. 

This is one of the things that keeps the customers of Apple hooked, the detailed, well-thought execution of even the existing features. I would also like to mention a similar feature that was introduced last year with iOS 14, the widgets, which worked better than what they did on Android. Even some speculations I read point towards Android widgets getting a revamp because of iOS widgets, talk about leading with an example. 

I also feel like the range of devices that support this new iOS release has been the greatest in the history of Apple, with even the iPhone 6s from way back 2014 being supported. Do you also feel like by providing FaceTime for non-Apple devices, Apple is trying to reel in more users? I think Apple is sending a strong message out there in the tech world and showing its consumers that they care about them and by doing so, I think they have nailed both quality and quantity this time.