[teleclimber]

I'm not sure it's so limited.

First this is a great space for open source apps.

Second I think people in general are becoming more aware that free online stuff usually comes with a hidden cost to privacy.

Third there is a whole swath of online services that can't thrive in current situation: services that are too uninteresting (from a data harvesting pov or no tie-in to larger offering) to run for free, and not valuable enough for the user to pay $7/month for, and not worth running as a SaaS at a lower price. Yet if a user had a cloud OS with metered resources, they could run such an app for a few bucks a year (plus a few bucks donation/paid to the app dev). And they'd never have to worry about it shutting down because the dev wants to do something else with their lives.