Well, step one is explaining the brand new VM and OS built on top of it. Non-starter.
Then explanation follows by claiming global IDs, allocated using a blockchain.
> 2 - User experience
> We want Urbit to be a single, simple interface for your whole digital life.
> A picture of nokia 3110 signifying OSv1,
> iPhone v1 signifying OSv2,
> and a blank space, signifying the supposed new OS version 3
What?
I've re-read the entire website multiple times and I'm yet to understand the problem they're trying to solve, or lessons I'm supposed to learn.
Maybe it's me, maybe nobody just told me that I don't understand new technology. But this seems like an elaborate toy for nothing.
I can't tell anything either, the doc is both too abstract (aspirational marketing) and too low level (buzzwords) at the same time. I can't tell what the entities are, what they do, and what the actual user experience is.
What would help is put on the front page (1) a concrete system architecture diagram and (2) a UI screenshot. That would go a long way to answering WTF is this thing.
If you feel like it, please tell me if I'm missing anything:
https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/
> 1 - Technology
Well, step one is explaining the brand new VM and OS built on top of it. Non-starter. Then explanation follows by claiming global IDs, allocated using a blockchain.
> 2 - User experience > We want Urbit to be a single, simple interface for your whole digital life. > A picture of nokia 3110 signifying OSv1, > iPhone v1 signifying OSv2, > and a blank space, signifying the supposed new OS version 3
What?
I've re-read the entire website multiple times and I'm yet to understand the problem they're trying to solve, or lessons I'm supposed to learn.
Maybe it's me, maybe nobody just told me that I don't understand new technology. But this seems like an elaborate toy for nothing.