Apple Introduces iOS 8

Call&#x2F;SMS integration is great. It&#x27;s worth noting that Google had absolutely everything they needed to do this <i>years ago</i>, and just... didn&#x27;t. Hangouts is still inferior to iMessage today. It&#x27;s a real shame.<p>Edit: this extensibility stuff might be enough to tempt me back to Apple from Android, at last. Third party keyboards, too (I&#x27;ve gotten quite attached to the Android swiping stuff). Honestly, at this point, I&#x27;m not sure what keeps me on Android. I confidently predict that iOS Active Notification usage will be far higher than on Android, even though Android has had it for years.

There are two big things here:<p>Health: it&#x27;s stepping on the toes of many partners, but might be groundbreaking. It&#x27;s extremely hard to crack healtcare, it&#x27;s very closed, defensive system of people and bureaucracy, Apple might just have the power to do it.<p>Extensibility: intents are basically _the_ reason Android can work so much better in many cases than iOS. I hope MS will bring it to WP very soon.

I don&#x27;t have an iPhone, but I just can&#x27;t understand why the keyboard cannot be lowercase when you&#x27;re writing in lowercase. I just don&#x27;t understand the motivation.

Still no user accounts on iPad. The only thing I want, and 8 versions in, it&#x27;s still not there. Why I can&#x27;t create a login for my kids on my iPad that hides my mail, calendar, certain games, etc? I don&#x27;t understand why this isn&#x27;t possible.

I&#x27;m personally excited about the possibility of creating an &quot;Emergency Card&quot; (<a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/health/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ios&#x2F;ios8&#x2F;health&#x2F;</a>) that&#x27;s accessible from the lock screen.<p>Currently, I use a screen-shotted contact screen as my wallpaper for my ICE contact - just in case the worst were to happen. This will let me put more information, and might even let me have a wallpaper again!

&quot;Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.&quot;<p>&quot;Completely new. Completely Mac.&quot;<p>I find meaningless slogans like these really disgusting and annoying. And it&#x27;s not just Apple, every second startup does this.

Totally on a tangent here, but I find myself disappointed, again.<p>I&#x27;m a long time hobbyist programmer, got my start back in the days of Apple IIe, got my first Mac in 1984...and I&#x27;m still not switching back to iPhone until I can write my own software and run it on my own phone without paying Apple for the privilege.<p>I&#x27;m waiting for two simple words: &quot;Unknown sources&quot;. Guess I have to wait some more. Not sure how low Apple&#x27;s market share will have to go before they start allowing it.<p>Can&#x27;t say I love programming for Android, Java just doesn&#x27;t feel right to me, but I&#x27;m sticking with it as long as I can write my own software, run it on my phone or tablet, share it with others, even sell it without Google&#x27;s permission.

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So so happy to see the SceneKit API make it to iOS. Even though &#x27;minor&#x27; compared to some of the other announcements, it was the number one thing I was looking for in today&#x27;s keynote, and it was nice to see it featured. Can&#x27;t wait to start using it.

Impress by All the announcements for developer in the WWDC. But taking the perspective of a enduser, there are key features i was hopping to get in iOS 8 that i didn&#x27;t:<p>-Spotlight Integration For third Party Apps.<p>-Multi-User Support Or Guest Mode<p>-iMessage For Android<p>-App Trials<p>-Fixing The Music App ( Artis-Album View is broken)<p>-Third Party Default Apps

Wow, real dynamic linking. Xcode even let me do so when targeting 7.1. Does anyone know if you will be able to submit apps to the AppStore that use dynamic frameworks while still deploying to &lt; iOS 8?

HealthKit and HomeKit are both really exciting (probably going to look at smartlocks now in particular). However, I&#x27;m easily most excited about being able to leave a group text.

The new texting suggestions in QuickType are awesome (if it works as suggested).

You can finally leave group MMS! That is awesome.

The family sharing looks like a great idea that is way overdue. Hopefully it works as easily as the marketing material indicates.

This was interesting:<p>&quot;Touch ID- For the first time, you’ll have the option of using Touch ID to sign in to third-party apps — there’s no need to enter a password. Your fingerprint data is protected and is never accessed by iOS or other apps.&quot;<p>Will this be used significantly by developers?

Apple&#x27;s iOS support for older products has been stellar, though I&#x27;m betting iOS 8 will be the last update the iPad mini, iPad 2, and iPhone 4S receive -- they will have had a good run of four years (except for mini) by the time iOS 9 is released.

It wasn&#x27;t made clear in the keynote and the page doesn&#x27;t mention it--I hope this includes sharing contacts with &quot;Family Sharing&quot;. That&#x27;ll be huge for helping my older family members keep a coherent address book.

The do not disturb sounds great. Does this mean the recipient or the sender sets it?

I have to say, I&#x27;m pretty impressed with the amount of stuff they&#x27;ve packed into iOS 8. Looks like it&#x27;ll be more than enough to easily rip me away from jailbroken iOS 7.

The extensions for apps look very promising. I don&#x27;t think Android intents provide this kind of deep integration between apps. But I would wait for some one to confirm that part.

Sounds minor, but I would have loved to have been able to change the SMS screen so I could have a black background instead of a white one. Is it that hard to do?

Mobile Safari now has WebGL enabled by default. How the hell isn&#x27;t that bigger news?!<p>Look eg here to get an idea of what it means for webapp: <a href="http://www.photonstorm.com/html5/a-first-look-at-what-ios8-means-for-phaser-and-pixi-js-hint-bunnies-lots-of-them" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photonstorm.com&#x2F;html5&#x2F;a-first-look-at-what-ios8-m...</a>

I was really hoping for split screen multitasking (which Windows 8 on tablets does a good job of). I heard it was possible, but was having problems getting it out the door in time. I <i>really</i> hope it comes out in the final version of iOS 8, because that&#x27;s the one thing that would tempt be to get a Surface over the next iteration of the iPad.

The mac integration for calls is great.

I have read through the entire text on that page and I still have not found the answer to the question &quot;What makes iOS 8 the world’s most advanced mobile operating system?&quot;.

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The attention to deal is mind boggling. If you missed the presentation, they said how many time they spent just trying to design a proper trash can.

Really, what does android have on ios that mainstream user would want?

&quot;Coming This Fall&quot;<p>Let me get my US-centric conversion calculator out... Fall &gt; Autumn, carry the one, add 2, and oh look it&#x27;s &quot;coming this Spring&quot;.

I am surprised that we see more then one submission about iOS 8 on this site (if you take into account the curation)

&gt;&quot;Plus, it also knows who you’re talking to, which is crazy. By knowing who you’re talking to, it will send up predictions that are right for the type of conversation you have with that particular person.&quot;<p>This is a bit scary... This means that Apple not only knows who I talk to but now actually maintain an index on how I talk with everyone. 1984 is getting closer and closer.