Apps as we know them is something that will die
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The Future of computing is not apps. Apps as we know them are something that I predict will die in the future.
My prediction of the future OS will be an AI assistant that generates software as you need it, knows you and creates the experiences you would like to see, for example you would not be controlled by an algorithm that shows you posts you do not care about.
Instead, the AI will show you the news you care about proactively.
Let me give an example, let's say you wanna watch short videos, the AI would browse the web for you, create an interface and show you the videos you care about, and not be controlled for example by a YouTube algorithm or any other platform.
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I land on the opposite side of this one. I build native apps for a living, and the stuff people actually trust an app with — their health data, their files, anything they want kept on-device and working offline — doesn't survive being generated on the fly by a cloud assistant. Generated interfaces are great for one-offs, but the moment something needs to be fast, private, and still there tomorrow, you want a real app living on the device.