Regardless of how much web browsers improve, it seems like they can't keep pace with everything we want to do. Open one too many tabs on a couple of year-old laptops, and the fan starts spinning, and battery life dips, your system starts to slow. A faster or cleaner PC may fix it; however, Mighty's startup has a diverse idea: a $30-a-month web browser that lives in the cloud.
Rather than your own physical computer interacting with each
website, you stream a remote web browser instead, one that lives on a
compelling computer many miles away with its own 1,000Mbps connection to the internet.
Unexpectedly, your good internet connection would feel like
one of the super-fast internet connections in the globe. With websites loading
nigh-instantly and fast web apps running efficiently without monopolizing your RAM, CPU, GPU, and battery, regardless
of the number of tabs you have open — because the only thing your computer is
doing is successfully streaming a video of that remote computer (similar as Netflix, YouTube, Google Stadia, and so
forth) while sending your keyboard and mouse commands to the cloud.
Skeptical? I definitely am, yet perhaps not for a reason, you'd think — because I attempted this specific idea nearly a decade ago, and it goes into practice. In 2012, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive introduced a virtual desktop web browser that would allow you to load full websites on an iPad in the blink of an eye and stream 4K video from YouTube. (Quite the feat in 2012!) It is the fastest web browser you've at any point utilized, and OnLive's asking price was simply $5 a month.
IT'S A Verified Concept
Cloud desktop service providers like Shadow have also given
similar capabilities; when you lease their gaming-PCs-in-the-cloud
($12-15 a month), you can utilize those virtual PCs' implicit web browsers
to get similar speeds, thanks to the fact they typically live in data centers
with not many hops to (and conceivably direct peering arrangements with) major
content delivery networks.
Mighty claims that by focusing on the browser (rather than
recreating an entire Windows PC), it can give more individuals what they
actually want. . “Most people want an
experience where the underlying OS and the application (the browser)
interoperate seamlessly versus having to tame two desktop experiences,” founder
Suhail Doshi commented at Hacker News.
Mighty claims it'll eliminate distracting cookies and ads, automatically inform
you about Zoom meetings, quick search Google Docs and probably different
integrations to come. Mighty also states it encrypts your data and keystrokes, among
other security promises.
In any case, it's not totally obvious why it costs a great
deal more, or who would pay $30 a month
for such a membership — you'd think the kinds of individuals who can afford
a monthly browser bill on top of their monthly internet bill would be the same
kinds of individuals who can manage a faster PC and faster internet in any
case. Gigabit fiber is already a reality for some homes, and dislike Mighty
will utilize your iffy 25/3 connection into
a gigabit one; At the same time, Doshi reveals to me it'll technically
operate with a 20Mbps connection; he says he's targeting 80+Mbps households at present.
On the other hand, dislike everybody has a real choice of
internet service provider, regardless of how much money they earn. As Jürgen Geuter (aka tante) points out
underneath, this feels more like an indictment than innovation. It's been a decade and we actually haven't solved these problems.
I totally agree with our colleague Tom: I genuinely want to see
who'd actually spend on this and why. Would you?
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