9 awesome iOS 8 features that can benefit your business

iOS 8 is jam-packed with cool features for users, and it has already led to some exciting new opportunities for developers. Now that it's been around for a few months (and it's been downloaded to the majority of users' devices), I wanted to find out how founders and their developers are taking advantage of the operating system from a business standpoint.

To find out, I polled nine entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). Their best answers are below

Interactive push notification campaigns

I’m most excited about iOS 8’s new interactive push notification capabilities, which lets developers create notification campaigns that have a high degree of interactivity. Instead of default one-directional notifications, users are able to take actions and respond to the messaging they receive, creating a much more engaged conversation between developer and audience. We’re extremely excited to take advantage of these notification features in 2015

– Emerson Spartz, Spartz

Battery drain

We're very excited that iOS 8 fixes some problems with Wi-Fi and battery draining complaints. We release tons of great, long-form content online. Between our blogs and eBooks, short battery life has been a source of struggle for us, and we're looking forward to that seemingly being resolved with the new iOS 8 developments Read more...