Starting with iOS 5 in 2011, Apple has become the stick with one-minute update: autumn leaves new edition of iOS, and at the beginning of next year - a major update. So it was with iOS 6, which debuted in September 2012 and iOS 6.1, which appeared in January, with iOS 7, released in September 2013 and iOS 7.1 - in March. With the release of iOS 8, apparently in Cupertino decided to abandon this scheme. According to 9to5Mac, Apple is currently preparing just three big update for "eight".
According to the source, the site logs in early September of the recording device with the operating system iOS 8.2 and iOS 8.3. With them go online Apple employees from different offices in the United States. Version of iOS 8.1, these statistics "lit up" in June. Thus, next year could leave three major updates that will bring a number of new features: iOS 8.1 will debut in early 2015, and iOS 8.2 and iOS 8.3 - a few months later.
In connection with this discovery observers made several assumptions about the future development of mobile platform Apple. Due to the unsuccessful release of iOS 6 with signature cards companies, iOS 8.0, which did not work platform HealthKit and iOS 8.0.1, which led to the failure of the cellular connection, Apple, perhaps, decided to change the traditional release cycle of new editions of OSes once a year. The second hypothesis takes into account the appearance of the next year the 13-inch iPad Pro and that his release is preparing one of the assemblies.
The most fantastic version seems to change in the name of the operating system. As is known, in the case of a desktop OS X platform the company decided on OS X 10.x and all further releases were designated OS X 10.1, 10.2, etc. It is assumed that in this way Apple can do in the case of iOS 8. following major issues will be referred to a similar pattern: iOS 8.1 instead of iOS 9, iOS 8.2 instead of iOS 10, etc.