Yet another "UNICORN". The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their downside potential and max their upside. The liquidation preferences, participation rights and antidilution rights the VCs have are very good for their interests. It's truly a pity that when the market conditions change and the money streams dry up, the founders and employees of these companies will have almost nothing. This bubble seems worse than the last one because by now you'd expect people to have learnt their lessons.
That's the problem with the on-demand companies' business model, you often have to put complete trust in complete strangers. This is generally dangerously. But this won't get the coverage it deserves until an "important" host is seriously injured or even killed by a guest.
I don't think that this solution will have any general appeal. First it's probably only a niche of developers that will consider using this product. Secondly, why would someone use a computer in the cloud that will probably perform as well as a low end pc. Your case may be valid but for someone that wants serious security, is an cloud based OS really that secure?
I don't think that this solution has any general appeal. Why would you use a computer in the cloud that will probably perform as well as a low end pc. Your case may be valid but for someone that wants serious security, is an cloud based OS that secure?