[intopieces]

Regularly scheduled software releases makes no goddamn sense to me. Why are MacOS, iOS, iPad OS, and tvOS supposed to ship at the same time? Moreover, does anyone really care if these get updated once per year? Especially tvOS. I really wish Apple would move to releasing new software "about" once every 24 months and just use the extra time to test.

[toyg]

Every year, new tablets and/or phones have to be ready for Black Monday and Christmas.

Every year, the phone OS has to keep up with new tablets and/or phones.

Every year, the laptop OS has to keep up with the phone OS.

That's basically it. At Apple, where the phone goes, everything else follows.

[p_l]

And for image reasons, it must be "major" release instead of minor release for hw support (like many commercial OSes did in the past, I think even macOS)