Operating systems = protocol layer.

For Apple and Google, accounts, storage, and payment are included.

Windows ??? Legacy install base. 

Apple bundles user data + synch. 

Cross-platform? Good luck!

There ARE new opportunities for “OS” layers opening up. Not sure who has the patient capital to go for it.

Web Tinkerer. DWeb. Open Source. Community. Just another one of the bees 🐝

Helping build a better 'Net × Architech × Excessively Black × East Coast kid on the West Coast

Some of the people I’ve been riffing with are working on hardware as one angle. 

Daylight Computer @daylightcomputer has the potential to go through some interesting evolution.

My end goal is to either create or help create a new computing platform and paradigm. We have so much access to better technologies and no one is doing anything different.

I don't think you need trillions to rethink computing. I'll start trying once I get close to a million dollars.