“With barely a weekend separating us from whatever new products Apple has in store for us, it’s safe to say that the final version of iOS 8 will soon make its debut on an iPhone or iPad near you (and perhaps some other device that we haven’t yet seen), to be followed in a few weeks by OS X Yosemite,” Marco Tabini writes for Macworld.
“Among the many innovations that the new launch will bring us is a feature called Extensions, which allows apps to collaborate by securely bits of functionality to each other,” Tabini writes. “Extensions have been a long time coming, and they could well end up having a lasting effect on the entire Apple ecosystem.”
“Extensions are the perfect conduit for the kind of small, focused apps that attracted so many independent developers to Apple’s platforms during the App Store’s early years,” Tabini writes. “Just as larger players, with their deep pocketed marketing budgets, have started eating the lion’s share of App Store profits, extensions could bring about a new opportunity for indies to thrive and innovate.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
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