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Hey I just want to start by saying I did not plan on my 666 video being about iOS total coincidence I promise hey what is up guys I'm kitty HD here and this week Apple unveiled its newest version of its mobile OS for iPhones and iPads and that's iOS 8 I was tempted to do an updated version of where iOS 7 features came from with where iOS 8 features came from but that would actually have been a pretty boring video because they all really came from some previous version of Android not that's a bad thing I mean we already know Google and Apple take features from each other all the time if that just would've been a boring video so even though you could easily go to Apple's website and just read down the list of new features a lot of people have asked me for my thoughts on iOS 8's new features so if I'd any further ado yeah these are my impressions of iOS 8 now first of all iOS 8 is not a big major overhaul from iOS 7 in fact it's visually basically identical it's really more of a collection of new features and nifty tricks that make it a new operating system for Apple and honestly if I was a full-time iOS user I would be very happy with a lot of these so the biggest collection of new features is under the umbrella called continuity and that is for people who also have a Mac so it's for people who have an iPhone and a Mac and your Mac will detect if your iPhone is nearby and basically start syncing information between them presumably over Bluetooth so you can start typing an iMessage on your phone and then realize oh I actually want to write an essay in this iMessage so you can swap over to your Mac and continue writing that iMessage pick up right where you left off and because of continuity and this Bluetooth sync it knows where you left off and you can pick up the exact spot if your Mac sees that your iPhone is nearby it will put a one click hotspot up in your system tray although it doesn't really seem clear what it's doing it seems like if you just click it oh now we're connected but you're using your phone now as a hotspot it's really nifty if you're on the train or something and you have your laptop in your lap and your phone in your pocket you can just click on it and you're connected to the Internet but I feel like a lot of people are gonna accidentally activate this and not really know what they're doing we'll see you also have the ability to airdrop between iOS devices and Macs which a lot of people have been waiting for and you now have SMS sink on iMessage between your computers and your iPhone which is extremely you so this is something I really wish hangouts would get on hangouts for Android and iOS and the web could be so much more robust if they adopted all these SMS sync features but they don't so that's a huge area where iMessage gets a thumbs up aside from that there are a couple of other system level tweaks that like I said will look very familiar to Android users you have interactive notifications now so if you get a new notification you can swipe down on it to like a Facebook message or reply to an iMessage or any number of things that you can do once you've expanded the notification and you never have to leave the app you're in so that's nifty you have widgets in the notification panel now that also third-party apps can plug into so now you have a fully customizable notification panel with all sorts of widgets of your choice and glanceable information that is really nifty spotlight search has gotten way more powerful before you're only really searching what's on your phone but now just like Google now if you search in spotlight you can get maps things you can get iTunes results you can get points of interest Google results all kinds of things like that so spotlight also more nifty and iOS 8 now has some awesome new keyboard improvements one being the new first-party keyboard which has better autocorrect and better next word prediction exactly like SwiftKey does on Android and number 2 you know how support for third-party keyboards and iOS very nifty messages also now has audio and video chat snapchat style so you can just swipe up from the microphone in the text box field and it'll give you the ability to just record a quick audio message and send it not sure how many people are going to use this because usually when I'm texting it's because I want to avoid talking on the phone or using audio but it's there and now also there's two microphones one in the text box field for swiping and another in the keyboard itself for speech to text recognition so we'll see how confusing that gets but it's a new feature and it's there also there is iCloud Drive which works exactly like Google Drive no real need to explain that and a new healthkit system which basically uses a bunch of sensors to keep track of your health information although it seems like they could use an extra bit of hardware perhaps something wearable to really tie into that system we'll see where they go with that and there's family sharing you know the new Photos app with a bunch more photo editing features there's the new programming languages WWDC they introduced a new programming language called Swift which is a huge deal for developer and we'll see how this impacts iOS apps moving forward I'm sure a lot of people are going to find this very important but overall you know a bunch of significant features and a nice collection of new things thrown into iOS that like I said will seem familiar to people who have used Android but I'm sure are very welcome to full-time iOS users I like how much more open and customizable it seems you know I mean I know it's baby steps but it seems like they're removing bricks from the top of the wall in the walled garden how's that for visual seriously it's a different attitude it's like you know the third-party keyboard thing I would have never expected to see that on iOS 3 years ago you know just to lock down obviously Android is open source so you can use whatever keyboard you want but I feel like Apple was looser you know they crack more jokes they had some more open features and they just talked about things in a different way and I feel like this is the beginning of them seeing a lighter maybe I'm just being optimistic but I felt like I was happy with their attitude at WWDC not that they would care what I think of their attitude but I feel like it's step in the right direction and I like the open sense of what I'm feeling so I'm feeling the vibe I really like it and I'm diggin the direction that Apple is headed yes they will take jabs at Android and then adopt its features and the same breath but it's all part of the game and maybe we'll see some iOS 9 features at Google i/o in a few months either way thanks for watching this video on my quick thoughts on iOS 8 obviously you could just read the stuff yourself if you really want to get into the nitty-gritty of the details but let me know what you guys think are you excited for iOS 8 are you excited to put it on your iPad or your iPhone I'm just going to wait for the full version to be released instead of just messing with the beta but I'm actually personally more excited for a Mac os10 or just OS 10 Yosemite which is the new desktop operating system very pumped for that but either way like I said thanks for watching let me know what you guys think I don't talk to you guys the next one base you