I’m also delighted that Apple will fulfill a wish of mine by . If you’re unclear on how tapping a hardware button could be better than tapping the on-screen shutter control, it’s simple: Imagine tapping the viewfinder of your regular camera every time you wanted to snap a photo. It’s much easier to hold your phone steady and press the volume button than it is to hold it steady while you poke at the screen. Like its rethinking on the , Apple’s about-face on repurposing the volume button is a smart, change.

Other promised camera niceties—like the ability to enhance and tweak photos on your iOS device, post them directly to Twitter without launching a separate Twitter app, and wirelessly sync them via iCloud—are all similarly awesome. These are my favorite kinds of updates: Apple is taking processes that were already easy, and making them simpler, more streamlined, and even more fun.

Like how I just tucked my first iCloud reference into an appositive phrase just a paragraph ago? That was kind of jerky of me, for the iOS experience. (It’ll revolutionize the Mac experience too, but that’s another article.)

No one—no one!—likes the current approach for transferring files between iOS devices and your Mac. Thus, even though iCloud’s magic, invisible syncing of your data will completely invalidate , I’m happier than Steve Wozniak in a Segway showroom.