Apps and their Stores: An Alternative History
summary
An alternate history argues that apps can be local‑first, auto‑synced, and updated without restarts by treating programs as data and letting the platform handle replication. It combines object capabilities, orthogonal persistence and dynamic software update, wires Croquet-style real‑time sync into a Newspeak docu‑app and a collaborative IDE that actually syncs between Chrome and Safari, mostly working but fragile offline, rejected by VCs and stalled by the 2008 crash.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Alternate history of app stores
- 8:50Industrial woe behind vision
- 10:592005 VC PowerPoint pitch
- 21:11VCs rejected the idea
- 22:38Java on client failure
- 26:28Newspeak collapse aftermath
- 27:18Q&A on Gmail and Java
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