How AI phones will rewrite mobile economics (Analyst Angle)
Smartphones have trained users to act like the operating system. To get simple things done, people bounce between apps, copy and paste details, and manually coordinate tasks that software should handle.
AI-focused phones aim to flip that model. Instead of tapping through menus and apps, users will give goals in natural language and let on-device and cloud-based AI agents do the legwork: find the restaurant, book the table, add it to the calendar, arrange travel, and follow up if plans change. If this shift takes hold, it will change how value flows in mobile. Time spent inside individual apps could decline as AI agents sit on top of them, brokering actions on the user’s behalf. That threatens ad-driven engagement models and pushes device makers, platforms, and app developers to rethink how they earn money when the primary interface is an AI agent, not a grid of app icons.
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