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...t of software, with its data model welded shut inside of itself. Its own little pocket universe. This makes apps safe to install but also fundamentally limited in how they can interoperate. Apps are fixed, single use, little islands. Even if you...
...er's Agent who can see all of a user's data, data is sharded across hundreds of pocket universes. Each pocket universe (domain) would love to get more data and use cases, but every other universe is unwilling to share it with others (because the...
...cold start problem like any other app. On the inside though it would be its own pocket universe. Use cases could collide and grow and evolve with minimal friction. Zero distribution costs within the ecosystem; use cases have minimal cold start p...
...the browser? As far as the browser is concerned, it's just any other webpage. A pocket universe with alternate laws of physics that manifests in a browser tab.
...whole new universe of new large scale applications like Fuschia does? Perhaps a pocket universe embedded in our current universe of apps that has different laws of physics, and can grow to become a whole universe in its own right?
...egator, but good. Aggregators allow zero-friction movement of data within their pocket universe. This unlocks a lot of innovation and value (as long as the aggregator allows 3Ps flexibility to do interesting things). Although the aggregator them...
...e of functionality. Each app has to bundle within it a lot of stuff to make its pocket universe viable. This chunkiness can run amok with things like aggregation, leading to apps that are like gravity wells. This also means that any given concei...
...throughout that journey, and your data doesn't come with you, because each is a pocket universe. What if you could have the composed app change itself and morph over the lifetime of your journey?
In the same-origin paradigm, every origin is a pocket universe. Each pocket universe starts with a few bits of functionality provided by the browser, but has to bring most of its own functionality and data. Each ...
...e right days. Why doesn't this ever work this way today? Each origin is its own pocket universe that knows everything about its universe and nothing about the other ones. No individual origin has the data to show you your availability in their w...
...riginal sin. The same origin model separates every origin into its own isolated pocket universe. Origins that have a critical mass of end user engagement will tend to accumulate more data in than they emit out. This leads to a significant prefer...
... way of keeping track of valid compositions. An alternate law of physics in the pocket universe within the larger universe it's embedded in. The pocket universe could grow into its own full universe that could come to have more power than the un...