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” ...