Ode to Solu

I love the idea of Solu

Maybe the product is not yet perfect.
Neither was iPhone at launch. Or IBM PC. Or Apple I.
But as they say: release early, release often.

Solu could fulfill my ICT dreams.

I want to get rid of "personal computing” worries.
In Solu, the personal part is minimized to the essential.

I want to use the best environment,
furniture,
mouse (as an alternative to touch),
keyboard
and screen for real work
or entertainment,
not compromises
like pocket wrenching tablets
or bulky laptops.
The perfect place can be
at home,  at work, at a café or in a friend's place.
My world can open everywhere with a Solu!

It does work while on the move also.
It does not have to be a perfect experience then.
Good riddance,
if I kick the habit of having a
a mediocre reading
and bad writing device
“glued to my hand” all the time, like my son says.
Besides, when I sit in a bus I can read with Spritz.

Storage on all of my devices has always been nearly full.
I want to have limitless care-free cloud storage
and never have to purge anything,
or to arrange secondary storage.

I want automatic backups
and versioning
for everything
for 100 years.
I want easy searchable backup archives,
so that I can do comfortable, careless "delete",
with the magic to get anything back anytime.
(See Venti
and Camlistore.)

I do not want to browse thousands of apps
of varying quality
and overlapping functionality
and little mutual integration.
I want to use a handful of good applications
working seamlessly together
and with a guaranteed managed lifecycle and evolution.
I never want to know anything about updating.
(It just works.)

I enjoy “managed software” security with iOS.
There has not been a single big security problem with iPhones, ever.
No ransomware to kill my endless cloud storage, please.
I want to keep it that way, Solu.

I want to experience real innovation
with no legacy components
or assumptions.
We need new ideas through the tech stack,
and through the business ecosystem.
At this point,
Solu folks still have probably hundreds of ideas to kill,
and room for hundreds more.
(I have plenty ;-)
But when the darlings have been killed,
what remains
will be a killer.

I want
(and partly have in Solu)
seamless hybrid
cloud
and semi-transparent caching
and deduplicate fiendly crypto,
efficient multicore,
microservices,
containers,
modern identity management (OpenID Connect etc...),
more new user interface ideas…

I want to buy a product
from competent people
who are not going to screw us
with their stupidity.
(I have bought stuff from Kickstart before. Unfortunately.)
I trust Oulu engineering,
game designers's UX skills
and their security skills.


I may be wrong,
but I WANT TO BELIEVE!