phoneboy

Not really a problem though is it. Compare with DASHs DAO that spend around 30M$ a year on improving and building the system.

Distributed cloud and DApps

I understand that even Estonia requires a manual process, with two witnesses at site to a property transaction. Then the question becomes how you digitize this on the blockchain?

Don't be ridiculous, Google is a platform company. Any service they create contributes to the same platform. Hence, if search is a monopoly so is the rest of the services.

Exactly, this is platform economics 101. If you missed this then read: Parker, G. G., Van Alstyne, M. W., & Choudary, S. P. (2016). Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You.

So many people think they are experts on blockchain tech nowadays after reading a few ICO whitepapers. The point of public chains is to automate tasks, whatever that task may be. Stop thinking of blockchains as this limited thing we see in the ICOs today and learn to see it as decentralized autonomous organisations. These organisations are focused on transactions and can be implemented as any market.

That's why we need decentralized solutions that break the hold the current centralized platforms have on us.

The store is their way to control their ecosystem, has nothing to do with the OS. This effort is a power-play against decentralized apps that threaten the centralized platform model.

I wish they stopped worrying about Google's and Facebook's possibility to profit of my data. Although I like f-fox, we do need a new alternative that support our privacy rights.

You link it with your facebook id, anything you share in addition about your personal preferences is always of great interest.

The next thing you should look at is who they send your personal data to and what data they send. There was rumors a year ago that they sent personal data to known advertiser IPs.

I'd like to see other terms as well, incl. distributed ledger stuff.