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The most significant ways in which it's a bit like an OS are 1. It has a Window Manager (try it out in the demo, you can drag around windows and such) 2. It h
by twiss 9y ago
The most significant ways in which it's a bit like an OS are
1. It has a Window Manager (try it out in the demo, you can drag around windows and such)
2. It has a File System, which does encryption and compression. This makes it so that the "apps" (documents and presentations, and in the future hopefully spreadsheets) don't have to know anything about encryption. This made it very easy to port the presentations app, for example.
3. It has a Marketplace with apps (not that they are very useful).
But yeah, since many people don't seem to like the name nor the OS-like UI, I'm considering dropping both. I'm just a bit concerned because there are many other companies named simply Airborne or Airborn. Also, integrating documents and presentations into a more unified UI would be a lot of work, since they're pretty much standalone apps today.
- tomc1985 9y agoI hope your encryption scheme is a little more complicated than the blind faith in AES that the site's copy seems to imply
- thinkloop 9y agoNames barely matter, but yeah, the "OS" is confusing, airborn makes me think viruses and plagues, don't get any feelings of "documents", or "encryption", or "security" from it, and the namespace is overloaded, it will be hard to get rank. Otherwise I really like the project. I want all my data on all sites to be locally encrypted and backed up in the cloud. Documents is the perfect start, because there is very little server-side introspection needed. I'd like my friend graphs and contacts to be next. In terms of UI, start by copying google docs exactly, they did a fine job.
- rpedela 9y agoWhy not Airborn Docs? I wouldn't worry about the misspelling either. Google is a misspelling, lots of music groups are misspelled words, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoMisspellings are usually on purpose to provide distinctiveness as a in built defence against a trademark being claimed to be a term in the art or a generic term. I like the name, -born (i.e. conceived) on the air - i.e. in an ethereal space. As opposed to the suggestions for "Airborne" which would be carried on the air, the use of "born" is better as it suggests genesis.
- twiss 9y ago"Born in the air" is indeed why I named it that, after I got the idea from the book by Kenneth Oppel with the same name.
- TimTheTinker 9y agoMay I suggest Air Docs?
- ggvgyy 9y agosnhxt
- kernel_sanders 9y agoHow about airborndocs?