Apple and Gemini, Foundation vs. Aggregation, Universal Commerce Protocol (Stratechery Update 1-13-2026)
The Universal Commerce Protocol, on the other hand, is much more ambitious (and complicated). You can define every aspect of the e-commerce funnel, from discovery to catalog to checkout to order history to returns to loyalty etc.; those aspects can then be consumed by anything, whether that be a chatbot, an agent, etc. This is much more work, but,... See more