APPLE CORE Opinion
MATT BOLTON…
DOESN’T WANT THE NEW VERSION OF iOS TO BUILD ON YET MORE FEATURES, BUT TO MAKE MORE OF WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE
As I write this, Apple has just announced that WWDC 2022 will indeed take place this year.
I wasn’t especially fearful that it wouldn’t, any more than I am fearful that December will roll around and there’ll turn out to be no Christmas (though, admittedly, that may be a real danger this year at this rate). So I tried to think about what big features I’d like Apple to add this year, and I realised that I don’t really think about magic new features for the iPhone any more. 15(!) years into its life, it’s no surprise that it’s harder and harder for there to be game-changing new things that a phone can do. No, all my gripes are more about the state of things now, and it struck me just how static and, perhaps, stagnant some of the built-in iPhone apps are.