How AI is killing smartphone apps in China

Here’s an interesting possibility for the future of smartphones
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/4203560/how-ai-in-china-is-killing-smartphone-apps.html>:
get rid of apps, and just rely on the device’s built-in “agentic” AI
capabilities to get stuff done. Of course, they would be powerful
enough to do everything that an app might do, and more.

Would you call them “smarterphones”? Or perhaps “AI feature phones”,
since they go back to the old feature-phone model of just having the
built-in software and nothing more. And yet, of course, they are
capable of getting more done than a regular smartphone -- assuming the
AI works reliably enough.

And some of them might even be “robot phones”, where there are
physical components on the phone (like a high-definition camera on a
gimbal) that can be operated by the AI.

And then there are these coming “AI wearables” ...