AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDD APPLE PAY. Poof!
Like magic. I have no idea which retail stores already have apple pay terminals set up, but I'm excited to spend a ton of money!
You can also set up text message forwarding to your Mac or iPad, or other apple device in Settings>Messages and selecting 'Text Message Forwarding.' Choose the device on which you want your messages forwarded to (you will have to sign in to iCloud, and perform a verification code). For the most part, its pretty easy.
I'm upgrading my iPhone 5s from iOS 8.1 beta 2 to the public release version of iOS 8.1 and the download size is 2.09GB. The download to my MacBook is going to take a few hours, what with the busy servers and my slow internet.