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"  The WWDC opened Monday with all the hallmarks of a great Benetton ad, launching the rather uniform crowd into a color wheel of app-fueled excitement. The intro video began with a hip, ethnically ambiguous, British girl standing in an alleyway struggling to describe what a developer looks like. Then from talking head to talking head, the video bounced its way through a diverse group of ages, races and genders all spouting a similar refrain: &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t even imagine what a developer would look like.&amp;quot; Not surprising, considering that Apple&amp;#039;s yearly World Wide Developer&amp;#039;s Conference is one of the few events where the line leading to the men&amp;#039;s restroom wraps around the corner while the women&amp;#039;s line is non-existent. It&amp;#039;s unfortunate, but not so shocking that there&amp;#039;s a disconnect between app creators and consumers. My name is Lyndsey Scott and I&amp;#039;m a fashion model and an app developer, having even developed a customizable iPad portfolio app called iPort specifically for models and other artists in the fashion industry (download for FREE from the Apple App Store). Although the biggest reaction of the WWDC crowd (admittedly, myself included) came at the introduction of Apple&amp;#039;s new programming language, Swift, I think the announcement of their new operating system, Yosemite, which will debut this fall on devices, is what you should know. Here, I break down the OS and iOS highlights in easy to understand points for those of you more interested in fashion than frameworks. 1) Your screen is getting a facelift. Visually, the changes are subtle\u2014more transparencies, a different font, a flatter interface, a slightly different color palette\u2014and though I was thoroughly unimpressed when Apple&amp;#039;s senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi pointed out the beauty of the new trash icon, Yosemite, the new operating system, is undoubtedly more beautiful to look at. 2) All those Apple devices you own will share a brain.  Handoff is perhaps the most exciting and useful new feature of the operating system. Now you can start composing a message, creating a document, or browsing the web on one device\u2014your Mac, iPad, or iPhone\u2014then seamlessly finish it from another, phone calls included. That&amp;#039;s right: You will even be able to make calls on your Mac! 3) iCloud might actually be easy to use.  iCloud now also allows you to automatically sync your photos and data between devices more easily than before and with its new pricing structure, it&amp;#039;s cheaper to have access to all of your data at all times. 4) Email embraces our obsession with photos\u2014and filtering.  In Yosemite, there will be a convenient photo editor called Mark Up attached to images within the Email composition window, so you can edit images directly within your messages. You can change the coloration, crop, contrast, and even draw on images using your trackpad. And you can finally send large attachments, up to 5GB, without overloading your server or your recipients&amp;#039; server. 5) Safari encourages the multi-shopper (or addicted fashion news follower). The new Safari web browser makes it easier than ever to navigate between pages. No matter how many tabs you have open, you can scroll through them with a quick swipe of the tab bar. There&amp;#039;s also a new &amp;quot;bird&amp;#039;s eye view&amp;quot; page which lays out all of your tabs in stacks organized by site and makes jumping around between pages super convenient. 6) Autocorrect just got a lot less hilarious, but a lot more hip.  iOS8 may finally mark the end of embarrassing autocorrects. Your device will recognize your speech patterns and offer word suggestions based on context, for example if you&amp;#039;re emailing a colleague and start a sentence with &amp;quot;The meeting was,&amp;quot; Quick Type may suggest &amp;quot;cancelled,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;rescheduled,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;moved,&amp;quot; but if you&amp;#039;re texting a friend, Quick Type may suggest following &amp;quot;The meeting was&amp;quot; with terms you&amp;#039;re more likely to say to your friend, such as &amp;quot;epic,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;awesome&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;a snoozer.&amp;quot; 7) Typing texts will become pass\u00E9.  iOS8 Messaging allows for video and audio messages, the ability to attach location information, and even auto-destructs messages in order to save space. Need to listen to an audio &amp;quot;text&amp;quot; message? Just lift your phone to your ear and it will play automatically. Need to send a reply? Similarly, lift your phone to your ear and talk. It&amp;#039;s that simple. 8) Receiving a message won&amp;#039;t interrupt you reading your horoscope.  Notifications in iOS8 are interactive so if you receive a text message, there&amp;#039;s no longer a need to leave an app in order to reply since you can now reply directly within the notification. 9) Group messaging just got a lot more polite.  Tired of receiving constant alerts from noisy group message threads? There&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;Do Not Disturb&amp;quot; option within group messages so you can turn off the notifications. 10) Truly Better Apps! The WWDC is a developer&amp;#039;s conference, after all. Apple has released a whole new programming language of its own, Swift, along with 4,000 new developer APIs and a whole lot more access to Apple&amp;#039;s operating system. What does this all mean? Better apps! What to expect: Custom keyboards; replacing passwords with your thumbprint as apps take advantage of iOS&amp;#039;s Touch ID; health apps to integrate with iOS8&amp;#039;s new Health Kit so you can keep your health data in one central place and have unusual readings sent directly to your doctor; better animations and quicker processing; being able to use your iOS devices to run more hardware within your home. With so many new tools for developers, the possibilities are endless. 75 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store thus far, and now Apple is giving its developers more control than ever. Instead of releasing flashy new hardware, the WWDC was especially tailored to those who make their software systems tick. Hopefully Apple&amp;#039;s simplified coding language and more capable system will encourage more people of more types to become not only content consumers, but content creators of greater diversity. Ladies of fashion, you&amp;#039;re up next! 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