It was doomed from the start, because monetizable computing platforms that target consumers can't succeed if they don't have high barriers to entry. Low qualit

It was doomed from the start, because monetizable computing platforms that target consumers can't succeed if they don't have high barriers to entry. Low quality Atari games were responsible for the 1983 video game crash. Anyone could publish an Atari game. So what ended up happening was people made games about things like raping Native American women (Custer's Revenge) and they were sold just like any other Atari cartridge. Nintendo pioneered the closed platform. No one was allowed to build games for Nintendo without Nintendo's permission. Microsoft and Apple did things a bit differently, by making their platforms as difficult to develop for as possible. WIN32 is byzantine. Making iPhone apps when the App Store was launched required learning Objective C, which was an entirely new language to most developers at the time. OpenAI on the other hand created an app store which, in their own words, "is simple and doesn't require any coding skills." https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-gpt-store https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-gpt-store