The real news in iOS 8

Without any fanfare Apple has introduced something called the “Document Picker” into iOS 8. This allows apps to access certain files of other apps – when they allow it. It is so new that Apple’s own apps do not yet use it, neither Pages nor Numbers. Now an app that provides file access to, say the PC file system can be used by another app for opening and saving files.

This will allow us to interact with our NAS (network attached store) and our ownCloud devices just as smoothly as we were able to work with DropBox up to now.

A big step into privacy.

And the next step is having an app that accesses a *strongly encrypted* storage device we have at home using end-to-end encryption. This is taking security into our own hands.