There's nothing particularly fancy about "extensibility", it just means apps can "talk" to each other, and they have more access to the OS. This has been a key design component of Android pretty much since Day 1. Apple has allowed "extensibility" between the core system apps forever. Mail can talk to Calendar for example.
With iOS 8, Gmail will be able to integrate much better with Drive and Hangouts. Hangouts, should it fully replace Google Voice, may be able to have full access to the system's inbound and outbound calling capabilities. A user could also extend their favorite keyboard app across the entire system.
Extensibility across iOS is a great win for users. Basically Apple is allowing 3rd party apps and users much more access to the full power and potential of other applications and the operating system, and by extension, no pun intended, to the device's wonderful hardware.
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