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Agents won't kill apps... on a phone, they can't act without them

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At WWDC this year, in the keynote, Apple confirmed something I had been holding as a logical intuition more than as an open question: when the assistant that lives in your phone wants to do something for you, it goes into the apps installed on that phone. An app declares the actions it can perform,…

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  1. 2026-09-29 07:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Agents won't kill apps... on a phone, they can't act without them

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