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Similar strategies seem to be working across the board from luxury mansions to designer watches.

• beenBoutIT 7y ago
  A one-off luxury OS could be extremely secure and difficult to hack.
  • the_watcher 7y ago
    If you built and sold it to someone (presumably an extremely private, wealthy individual), you could also presumably stay on retainer for life as the only person who could fix it.
  • est31 7y ago
    That's security by obscurity and in the computing world this strategy has shown to fail. In other areas of life obscurity gives you advantages like in military conflict, but not here. Furthermore, an OS with only one or only few users would have to go through a lot of extra testing compared to the free testing that "popular software" companies are getting. But your comment made me think about why there isn't much going on in luxury computing. As in: where are the raytraced photorealistic nvidia DGX games. Probably too small of a market but I don't know. Do rich people play a lot of games? Or do they rather prefer real life because they have the resources?