Welcome to Cloudintosh
cloudintosh.sharedigm.com
cloudintosh.sharedigm.com
The look+feel being like “something-intosh” is waaaay too emphasized. If they just mirrored the design language it’d be one thing, but this seems like it’s _asking_ for a cease and desist.
Like I clicked expecting a synergy focused neo-textual presentation vis-à-vis the Macintosh
But literally the first line of text my eyes laid on was the explanation, it's cloud "OSX".
Clicking on About made it clear the OSX part was just the look and feel, and so did the Apps page.
And I mean, it also feels like a bit of parody so that'd be ruined by beating you over the head with "*not actual OSX" everywhere on the oage
I wouldn't be surprised if the product is terrible and they are leaning on the shiny that is OS X to capture attention.
I don't see how anyone could say this site isn't telling you what its selling. It's a common problem, but not this time.
Joke: it's a way to get sued by apple. The name "cloudintosh" is just a bait.
On a more serious note: it reminds me of a pure-in-broswer "operating system" that of course had server-side apis for anything persistent... I played with one a lot of time ago.
I just found the name of the thing: it's eyeOS -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS
> Cloudintosh is a place for you to store, access, and share your digital world using the look and feel of your favorite operating system. It combines a cloud storage system and operating system with a social network so that it’s easy to work with and share your data. It's based upon the Sharedigm cloud OS so it combines a modern cloud OS with the look and feel of your favorite OS.
It looks like it's intended to look like a persistent desktop machine you can access from a browser or a mobile app.
It's basically airdrop, but over the internet instead of your local network.
Only 10 seconds later as i was moving the cursor to close tab button did it render. On looking the homepage is 11M of artifacts and as it's a single page app nothing is rendered until it's all downloaded.
Terrible UX.
It would be fine for me to use a CloudWindows from MS, because most my data are already in OneDrive. Or a CloudMac from Apple. But not any other companies.
We know for sure these megacorps have been selling or handi6 over all our data for decades. Do we really want some minor league players getting a taste of it? Hell no. Evil has to be concentrated, distilled, and big
Question: If this platform were released as open source or fair source, is there an audience of people that would consider building applications on top of it?
It's an appealing idea, but I have a feeling that today, most wouldn't even consider building on top of anything that's not provided by Apple/Google/MS.
People who care about how their OS looks and feels are extremely detail orientated in whats correct and what isn't in their OS. E.g there absolutely should not be in window menus for anything trying to replicate MacOS.
Cloudintosh is more of a frontend theme wrapped over sharedigm.com
Cloudintosh is a bit of an UX experiment in how to generalize the theming process to allow the UI to be skinnable enough to emulate (and perhaps extend) the environment that you feel comfortable with. Sharedigm's theming system can also roughly emulate WindowsXP, Windows10, and Windows11, Ubuntu etc.
The core idea, though is to be able to have a "personal cloud" where the user is able to make those decisions.
eyeOS used to do something similar, starting from 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS
That moving/flying background windows is beyond horrible, spent 3 seconds trying to understand what this is and then the dizziness started to hit me.
That is not to mention that from I saw in the video, it looks like a knockoff mac, and not a very good one either.
I know you can host your own instance , but what happens if I use the hosted service? How do the devs pay for running costs?