What is Elon doing with his $8 varification?

@SW-User Eventually the price of every OS will be zero. Every single piece of technology will eventually be absorbed into a larger entity. At some point, we will have a true abstraction layer, that self-customizing apps run over. I've been working toward this goal for years and years.

One thing though: when a piece of software starts out as free, it's hard to charge money more than a decade later, especially given that replacing it with something, of equal or better functionality, is trivial.

dunno how sensitive your specific endeavor is, but it sounds like it would be an interesting point for elaboration @Northwest

@SW-User It is not really sensitive. I've done multiple very public presentations over the past 20 years.

The more powerful hardware we have the easier it becomes to separate the software, from the underlying hardware.

Today, we buy fixed functionality software: web browser, Microsoft office, Google Docs, Apple Office, etc.

Most of us use no more than 10% of the features of the software we buy/use. The future of applications, in my opinion, is an adaptive layer, that helps us determine what we need, and exposes only what we need, when it's needed. It's not always present on the local machine (but it can if needed for performance purposes), and the data may be cached locally, but it lives in the cloud (local, or remote).