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I'd love to see a P2P style open cloud service created, where companies that use cloud services can use that instead, and then even if their company fails or ha
by cableshaft 10y ago
I'd love to see a P2P style open cloud service created, where companies that use cloud services can use that instead, and then even if their company fails or has to shut down their own support of their services, their products can live on with the P2P cloud.
(Or, even if it's just an auto-graceful downgrade solution, like it hits their servers first, but if that's not available it tries the other).
For example, I once worked on a multiplayer iOS game about collaboratively writing stories based on keywords, and we were going to create a service to do it, but in the end decided to use the built-in asynchronous turn support in iOS GameKit.
Eventually the company folded, and if we had done our own service, the game would be completely unplayable. But because we used Apple's built-in services, it's still playable today, even though the company is gone, and even though the app is no longer on the app store.
That's kind of what I'm thinking, but instead of Apple providing that service, it's an Open Cloud service.
I was even thinking of writing an API to play mobile apps via email, where JSON strings of game turn data being passed back and forth via email, possibly via dedicated email addresses that the apps are given user/passwords to. Since email is a basic protocol that isn't likely to go away anytime soon, it seemed like a good tech to base that on.