{"id":53805,"date":"2026-11-09T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53805"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:43:02","slug":"shorter-convergence-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/09\/shorter-convergence-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Convergence Period"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Gurman<\/a> (tweet<\/a>, 9To5Mac<\/a>, MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, though, Ternus has delivered a different message, knowing full well that Apple remains far behind rivals. In recent weeks, Ternus held a closed-door meeting with Craig Federighi, who became Apple’s AI czar following last year’s dismissal of its former AI leader. Desiring more and frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors, Ternus pushed his software chief to accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Apple is already deep into work on next year’s operating systems, Bell (iOS 28 and iPadOS 28) and Poppy (macOS 28), but has changed up its process, I’m told. Apple traditionally separates development of each year’s new OSs into three major milestones known as M1, M2 and M3. Development of each stage runs for eight weeks and is split between four weeks of coding and four weeks of convergence, meaning integrating the features into the operating system.<\/p>\n

For this cycle, though, Apple has done things differently for the M1 milestone. Instead of the normal split between two four-week efforts, Apple engineers were tasked with six weeks of coding, exploration and feature development, and then only two weeks of convergence. Employees say they like the change, indicating that it creates more time for coming up with ideas and exploring them before needing to lock things in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I don’t think Federighi’s problem is that he’s going too slow<\/em>. Less time for integration sounds like<\/a> a recipe for even more bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n