US EditionCarl Pei Says ‘Apps Are Going to Disappear’ as Smartphones Become More Agentic
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Carl Pei, the creator of the Nothing brand, claims that the applications will disappear. It also encourages the developers of the apps to offer services with which the agents of the AIA will be able to communicate.
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velvetclassic.netCarl Pei Says ‘Apps Are Going to Disappear’ as Smartphones Become More Agentic
Nothing CEO Carl Pei predicted that in the future, apps on smartphones will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Speaking at South by Southwest (SXSW), the executive suggested that the current app-centric model is “boring” and largely unchanged for 20 years. He highlighted that using a smartphone to complete a task today feels like admin work, where different apps must be manually set to get to the final output.
Carl Pei, Nothing's charismatic CEO, sets the stage: smartphone apps are suspended. According to him, they will soon be replaced by proactive AI agents who will understand our intentions and act in our place. No more icons, place a delegated interaction where the phone performs the tasks without having to juggle between different services.
For Carl Pei, the smartphone has hardly changed in nature in years. During an exchange at SXSW 2026, the CEO of Nothing explained that the industry still relies on the same software grammar as yesterday: locked screen, home screen, application store and sequence of apps in full screen. According to him, this logic comes to an end, [...] The Carl Pei article at SXSW 2026: "Apps will disappear from your smartphones" appeared first on BlogNT: the B…
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