App Store and Google Play became the gateways to this digital universe, spawning a multi-billion-dollar economy that transformed companies like Apple and Google into the world’s most powerful software gatekeepers.We are on the precipice of the biggest shift in consumer technology since the multi-touch screen: the rise of the ‘AI-first’ smartphone.The devices are designed around small language models (SLMs) and multimodal AI agents that will run locally on your phone for quick, privacy‑sensitive tasks; and hand-off heavier reasoning to edge or cloud computing.The phones will discard the traditional operating system architecture of home screens, file systems, and sandboxed apps. What is your take the rise of agentic AI ?
