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OpenAI pushes ChatGPT as an alternative to the app store model
Sep 29, 2026SOURCE: techcrunch.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this accelerates a choice point: build through open networks or get funneled into a single agent portal. The wire is already rerouting software supply chains.
OpenAI is assembling discovery-and-use components inside ChatGPT for people and AI agents. The signal is the platform inversion: software distribution shifts from merchants to model owners.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.