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hey guys this is Dave TD and WWDC just went by which is Apple's yearly conference for developers and they've released iOS 9 and they also talked about a couple of interesting things in their ecosystem so I want to do a quick video just kind of discussing things that I thought were particularly interesting to me as well as some things that I thought were interesting about iOS 9 all right the first thing that comes to mind is this Rip Curl wallpaper it's kind of cool it's the only one they have so far but I thought it was cool for like 20 seconds and then I got sick of it so I have problems I know there's no new ringtones yet but these usually come on in later seeds now if you notice there is a new font in iOS 9 it's the font that they used on the Apple watch it's called San Francisco and I think I actually like the older fonts more but I'm pretty easy to please either way I like lists actually a love list i friggin make lists all day long I make them for work make them for my personal life I make them for planning YouTube videos I mean I could probably make lists for my lists so that I could organize my lists better now before iOS 9 I use the reminder app to make lists just because it had the check mark option kind of tick off what it is that you've done but the new Notes app is awesome for making lists you can type up a few things that make a list and then turn them into check markable items you can also do drawn notes but I find that there's a bit of lag when switching to drawing mode and back but in general it's pretty good there's also a trackpad cursor so if you two finger tap anywhere on the pop-up keyboard you can kind of control the cursor like a trackpad it looks kind of gimmicky during the demonstration but it straight up one of the best features of iOS 9 it's super simple and it's super useful and you can really use it for just basically anything to do with text highlighting and stuff like that the search functionality is quite a bit better they try to do the whole proactive search thing but it's not as good right now in its current iteration as Google now it's much improved over the search functionality of iOS 8 but I still think that Google now is more accurate with its predictive material granted this is the first seat of the beta and I can only expect massive improvements over time but I think it's a really good that Apple is finally addressing how bad Siri was compared to Google now they demonstrated the picture-in-picture video app during the conference and it worked really well in the conference and it works very well in real life as well super fluid and just based on my initial impressions this makes the iPad a much more useful everyday device the multitasking demonstration was pretty well done and it suddenly makes the iPad just way more useful and I think in general this bodes well for iPads and makes me even more excited for the rumored iPad pro currently you can only use multi-window with the set list of apps built by Apple but I think this will change in time as developers make their apps more multi window friendly I'm not going to go into details of how it's done but it's pretty intuitive it's just some sliding gestures to set windows to where you want them to be and if you have an iPad air 2 you can use both windows at the same time the new transit feature for maps is pretty nice Google Maps has had this feature for an incredibly long time but hey it's better late than never right it also has this flyover feature which is kind of cool you type in a city and hit flyover and you'll basically do a flyover of a 3d generated map of the city I've worked on several iOS games and my very first game was very very art intensive everything was hand-drawn and there's just a lot of sprites in the game and because Apple has a bunch of devices with different resolutions you draw your art to fit these devices so you'll have a spreadsheet for like the iPhone 4 iPhone 6 iPhone 5 and all the different resolutions of iPads it's tedious but that's just how you make hand-drawn game so that's fine but then these art assets get downloaded and installed and even worse it gets loaded into memory so let's say you're using an iPhone 6 your device is storing and wastefully loading into memory the art for the iPad 2 the iPhone 4 and basically every other device that your app supports so this new feature in iOS is called app theny which installs only the assets that a particular device will use so if you have an iPhone 6 it's only going to install the art assets for your specific device now for app developers this is pretty good but for indie game developers especially for like hand-drawn art games it'll just keep installs lighter and just perform way better so I'm really excited to see Apple doing stuff like this some other things from WWDC that I thought were cool watch OS 2 looks really solid I'll be checking that out over time I'm just really stoked that they added self customizable watch faces right that's something I really wanted from day one and I'm glad they addressed it El Capitan looks kind of cool not that excited about it Swift to being open source I think it's good that they did it it doesn't hurt them but it's not earth-shattering news well lastly I want to briefly talk about is Apple music I think they did a terrible job in the presentation I think it kind of turned off most people who are watching it I think Drake's appearance was really unnecessary but I think the service is pretty cool I think it's priced reasonably well I mean $10 is the standard kind of premium streaming service price which is fine the $15 pricing is really great for families I think there's gonna be a lot of fake families that pop up to kind of sign it up for 3 bucks a person that's pretty cool but the only thing I don't really like about it is the fact that it's another Apple service that you kind of you kind of get sucked into the ecosystem just like iMessage and every other Apple service now I don't like having everything integrated into one company I think it kind of fosters fanboy ISM but you know what that's what you get in any case that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it and if you have questions comments type blow thumbs up if you liked it thumbs down if you didn't and as always it's been nice I'll see you guys next time