Enter Dynamic Island, a Major Hint at Apple's Extended Reality (XR) Strategy

Makes me think of Kremlinology techniques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology#Techniques), the art of interpreting small observations as hints and filling in the gaping holes in one’s understanding using a combination of common sense and wishful thinking, with questionable results.

For example, the article says:

“An example of the second one was during WWDC in 2014. It was observed that in the iOS 7 beta the clock icon was actually moving. A few months later, Apple went on to announce the Apple Watch in 2015.”

I don’t believe the argument that the first was done to test out the second. The time between those releases was too short to get feedback from customers, and if they wanted internal feedback, they could have used a private build of iOS, or, likely, a prerelease version of the Apple Watch (WWDC 2014 was in early June, and the Apple Watch was announced in early September 2014)