An "everything app" is just an operating system. There is nothing to picture, we've been having them since the 1950s [1].
We could imagine some new way of operating over systems: for instance the Alan Kay original meaning of object-orientedness [2], or instead of a compiled binary to have some stable diffusion model + large language model which hallucinates the OS on the go [3].
But that's not what the quantifiably greediest person on the planet has in mind, by "everything app" they just mean "everything must be controlled by me, not by you".
Thank you for the read. The idea of an OS supplanted by an AI is fascinating.
> "everything must be controlled by me, not by you"
Right, the end goal I had in mind for "the everything app" is the control of the software (including communication), the data and the payment system by the same company.
Few companies have achieved that outside of China. I'm thinking, Apple, Google, Samsung in Korea maybe?
And no one I know personally is fully tied to one ecosystem. My friends only use the individual services they need. Becoming WeChat will not happen.
Even the idea of Twitter growing into a Google size company seems completely unrealistic. Meta struggles with achieving this and right now they're more popular than Twitter.
We could imagine some new way of operating over systems: for instance the Alan Kay original meaning of object-orientedness [2], or instead of a compiled binary to have some stable diffusion model + large language model which hallucinates the OS on the go [3].
But that's not what the quantifiably greediest person on the planet has in mind, by "everything app" they just mean "everything must be controlled by me, not by you".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo
[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/opena...