Re:Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the exist...
by tlrobinson on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:11AM
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If the answer is "the same reasons someone might use a VPN or Tor" that's fair enough, and a much better answer than "you install it on her computer".
(Though there are a variety of use-cases for VPNs and I doubt Orchid addresses most of that $25-30B market)
This kind of question always comes up for just about every service ever developed, and as the discussion continues the goalposts tend to shift and the user gets less and less sophisticated and more and more stubborn until at some point you demonstrate a user exists for which I can't prove they want it, and then victory is somehow declared. It is a sport I don't see much interest in playing.
To flip the question: we are providing a replacement for a service that already exists which is used by people worldwide and makes up a sizable market; our replacement is more secure and likely to cost less. Given that beachhead, you can now ask "who else would want to use this service if only it were cheaper and more secure?", and have a really fun brainstorming session.