Sources

Figures checked October 2026

Slide 02 · Ecosystem scoreboards

• App Store: 10M downloads in the first 3 days (July 2008)apple.com/newsroom, Jul 14, 2008
• AppExchange: 162 applications at launch (Jan 2006)The Register, Jan 17, 2006
• CUDA: 100M+ CUDA-enabled GPUs (Dec 2008)Nvidia press release, Dec 9, 2008 (archived)
• Amazon Marketplace: third-party sellers 61% of paid units (Q4 2025)Amazon Q4 2025 results
• GitHub: 28M+ developers at the Microsoft acquisition (June 2018)Microsoft, Jun 4, 2018
• Facebook Platform: 85+ apps at F8 launch (May 2007)Facebook press timeline (archived)
• Tesla Supercharger: 6 stations at launch (Sep 2012)Tesla, Sep 24, 2012
• Stripe: $1.9T total volume (2025)Stripe, Feb 24, 2026
• Shopify App Store: 21,000+ apps (Dec 31, 2025)Shopify 10-K FY2025 (SEC)
• Google Play: 450,000+ apps and games at the Google Play rebrand (Mar 2012)Google, Mar 6, 2012

Slide 03 · The value-metric gap

• App Store developers earned $550B+ since 2008Apple Newsroom, Jan 2026
• 3,000,000+ agent skills indexedSkillsMP homepage (read Oct 19, 2026)
• Nearly half of all skills were installed exactly onceVercel, "State of agent skills", Sep 25, 2026
• 36.8% of 3,984 scanned skills had a security flawSnyk ToxicSkills study, Feb 2026

Slide 05 scoreboard bars are illustrative, not data.