A fact Alan Kay himself
didn't like.
Way more compute power than he imagined, applied to a much smaller physical device than he imagined.
But it's locked down.
It's impossible to build an iPad app on an iPad.
That fundamental restriction breaks the generative loop of software.
Instead of an infinite self-recursive loop, we have an extractive single loop.
We should be angry about that.
The Dynabook vision has stayed as a north star for the industry… but accidental architectural decisions made it impossible to reach.
We locked ourselves in silos, and so now we can't reach the stars.