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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (170184)	6/2/2014 4:03:28 PM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Respond to of 213177

Did you watch the keynote? Great additions to iOS 8 for developers allowing them much more access to iOS. Over 4000 new APIs! New, simpler programming language as well. Devs were excited about all of that stuff. You should be excited. No, but I'm aware of that. The more they open up, the better. They're so far from open that it's not very meaningful to me unless they begin to allow users the option of running iOS on other devices or running other OSs on Apple hardware, but it's a step in the right direction.

To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (170184)	6/2/2014 4:11:16 PM
From: slacker711	3 Recommendations Recommended By AJ Muckenfus Doren Zen Dollar Round Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Actually, I am thrilled. I expected there would be more selloff after no new hardware was announced. From my perspective, these announcements were potentially better than new hardware. I "know" that the hardware is coming so this is simply a matter of timing. I didnt know that Apple was going to have such a drastic revamp of the SDK with much of it focused on allowing developers new flexibility. The two obvious highlights of this trend are allowing 3rd party keyboards (finally!) and allowing the fingerprint reader to be used by 3rd party apps. Hopefully, that is reflective of new thinking at the company with respect to getting new features to developers. Now if we could just get some progress on opening up Siri. With respect to Swift, when you only change languages every 20 years, there is likely some significance behind the move. Slacker