Does The Rise Of AI Agents Signal The End Of The App Economy?

Forbes October 25, 2024
Daniel Newman

The app economy is quickly coming to an end.

A sensational sentiment, perhaps, but let’s go ahead play this scenario out anyway.

For the past year I have closely tracked how much of the enterprise software and SaaS services we use will be deprecated to data services or databases. AI tools and agents will remove abstraction layers and enable a single-pane-of-glass-type use case where we can leverage multi-modal generative tools to build a real time UI for a specific query or use case. (Think search with Gen AI for business.)

Now, shift your thinking to the app experience most of us have today when we interact with our mobile devices and tablets. Many of us use dozens, if not hundreds,...

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