The Devices That Will Replace Your Smartphone — and They’re Not What You Expect

AI Agents: The End of Apps

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What if I tell you that your smartphone is headed to extinction?

That you will no longer spend your day with your face glued to the little screen?

I’m not telling this to scare you. But you should be aware of a trend that has been in the making for some years.

Even the apps will be replaced by something way more useful.

Let’s check this out.

The problem with smartphones

For more than a decade, the smartphone has been our digital hub. It’s the device we reach for hundreds of times a day to find a restaurant, check the weather, or send a message. But a fundamental shift is underway, a change that will transform our relationship with technology and make the smartphone as quaint as the flip phone it replaced.

What is the problem with smartphones? Aren’t we delighted with them?

It seems smartphones are increasingly inadequate in the age of AI. They were designed 16 years before modern AI was available (I mean, Generative AI powered by deep neural networks).

Around 2010, smartphones and social networks formed a perfect match. Mobile phones were…