iOS 8 review: incremental iDevice improvements

Apple announced iOS 8 during WWDC 2014 and was released to the public two days ahead of the iPhone 6 launch. One thing that you must know is that iOS 8 doesn’t bring any drastic changes that we’ve come to know from iOS 7, which brought a complete new UI design. The design of the latest update is largely based on iOS 7’s new flat and colourful design theme. iOS 8 is more about adding subtle changes and refinements to existing features but the most interesting bit about iOS 8 is that Apple is finally opening up to third-party developers, but just how open is it? That is something we’ll have to wait and see as developers use these new APIs to create the “freedom” Apple promised. So let’s jump straight ahead to the review and see if iOS 8 is worth enough to compete with the likes of Android L and Windows Phone 8.1.