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Originally Posted by Setok View Post
As mentioned, a mere Solu app will not suffice. It's not just the limitations on AppStore/Play etc, we do actually go down into the kernel level to make this whole model work. Now we could possibly have a virtual desktop environment, but none of those have ever been successful and, I believe, for good reason: the experience is too 'geeky'. You end up having an OS with its oldschool windows which then contain another OS with a completely different model. There is too much mental load and the experience is bad.
I could see the benefit in having a 'Solu Server' type device, i'm thinking along the lines of 5 Solu devices stacked up in a stylish box, which you plug into your local network at home and access it via a 'remote desktop' app on your tablet/phone/laptop/whatever.

Naturally you would continue to offer the standalone Solu device as some users might find this 'too geeky' as you say, but it seems silly to leave tablets out of the equation (not so much phones or laptops) since it looks like a good match for the user interface, and there's already a decent install base which you can leverage.

Not to mention that a large percentage of users these days have stopped the whole 'desk' part of 'desktop computing' and have transitioned to 'couch computing' on phones, laptops, and tablets, which is a use case that the solu completely ignores.

I just feel that without something along those lines, that the whole cloudy stuff is mostly academic, since the user may only have one solu device, and so from their perspective is there any difference between it being in the cloud vs having large local storage? Not really.
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Last edited by r0kk3rz; 2015-10-21 at 17:25.
 

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