AT Mobile OS (ATMOS) Gains Ground In Mobile

Every time we load a web page, we are setting up a small, ephemeral application that we can interact with until we navigate away. This model has huge potential to offer a significantly better experience than we get from installed apps, especially now that AI agents can interact with multiple systems simultaneously without incurring excessive UI complexity. 

This opens the door for people to use computers centered on tasks rather than applications. To offer an example, this is the difference between the task of choosing a picture from your collection, editing and inserting it into a document, and the application function of going to your photo management tool to select a picture, exporting it, opening it in your photo editor, exporting the result, and bringing that edited version into your document editor.

At present, the web’s security model is a poor fit to compose services together. The approach that ATproto has taken allows for small, single-purpose applets that are good at carrying out a single task—then composing them based on needs. 

The headline is reporting on the gains made by ATMOS (AT Mobile OS), an imagined operating system built entirely atop this exact model. Such a system has the potential to break open app stores and liberate developers from the 15-30% tax that Apple and Google arbitrarily collect from them. The transition to that world can be gradual, starting with a social media app and eventually taking over the system.