

Beyond the Alphabet is a weekly column that focuses on the tech world both inside and out of the confines of Mountain View.
This year has been one of the weirder ones if you're in the Apple camp, as the company has made a few surprising decisions and announcements. The first of which was the eventuality of Apple making it possible to sideload apps onto your iPhone, without solely relying on the App Store. Then, we saw USB-C come to the iPhone 15 lineup, something that should have been done years ago but had not yet come to fruition. Finally, and more recently, Apple announced that it would be adopting the RCS standard sometime next year.