Let’s stop dancing around it. The App Store is dead. Not “dying.” Not “evolving.” Dead. It’s not because people don’t want software anymore. It’s because software no longer needs to be packaged, browsed, downloaded, or owned  in the way we’ve pretended makes sense for the last fifteen years. What comes next isn’t apps. It’s runtimes + agents + tokens . And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. The App Store Was a Distribution Hack — Not a Law of Nature The App Store solved a v

There was a time when tech innovation was about discovery, creativity, and progress. Now it’s about doing strange things for strange APIs — and honestly, I’ve never been happier. We’ve reached a point where “making it” in tech feels less like engineering and more like light digital prostitution.  You build your little Franken-app, slap a “powered by Base44” tag on it, and wait for the algorithm to bless you with tokens and validation. It’s ridiculous. It’s shameless. It’s hil