Space OS is trying to bring back the personal computer — this time in the cloud
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    But it doesn’t create an account on someone else’s server; it downloads the code and installs it in your Deta cloud so it can run even if the app eventually disappears.

    Your Deta cloud is essentially two things: an encrypted place to store your data and a series of virtual machines that spin up to run your various apps.

    When I asked Abdelhai why people should trust Deta instead of their other cloud services, he cited two things: the business model and the tools.

    The company is trying to make it ludicrously easy to build and sell apps, which is part of how it hopes to convince developers to jump to a new platform.

    Imagine, he says, if your Google Docs, Notion, Figma, and Slack accounts could all share data and talk to one another — that’s the Space OS dream.

    The cloud era, of course, made computing vastly easier and more powerful but also systematically ate away at the idea that you could control anything on your devices.

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