The announcement also marks a change in how Apple signifies its major updates to iOS. Under the previous marketing scheme, this year’s major release would have been iOS 19 — the direct follow-up to iOS 18. But now, Apple’s big iOS updates will be numbered based on the year following their introduction

Well that’s interesting. I was certain The Verge was trying to be funny. But this tracks, now Apple has Biggest Number™.

what, the yearly release naming scheme? not sure why you find it so ridiculous, i think it makes a lot of sense as opposed to having a differeent release number for every platform. it’s also not that unusual, lots of software is named by the date.

I suppose it makes sense for Apple, seeing as a significant chunk of their userbase are complete fucking morons.