alt Hacker News> I suspect ten years from now, people will look back at 2024-2025 as the moment Apple had a clear shot at owning the agent layer and chose not to take it
Ten years from now, there will be no ‘agent layer’. This is like predicting Microsoft failed to capitalize on bulletin boards social media.
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podnami • today at 1:20 AM
Is your prediction that most people actually like to use software?
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keyle • today at 3:28 AM
We are likely the last generation to know how to use a keyboard. Sadly.
Kids can barely hand write today.
Once neural interfaces are in, it's over for keyboards and displays likely too.
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CuriouslyC • today at 1:54 AM
If you're arguing that in 10 years we won't have fully automated systems where we interact more with the automation than the functionality, I've got news for you...
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Ten years from now, the agent layer will be the interface the majority of people use a computer through. Operating systems will become more agentic and absorb the application layer while platforms like Claude Cowork will try to become the omniapp. They’ll meet in the middle and it will be like Microsoft trying to fight Netscape’s view of the web as the omniapp all over again.
Apple will either capitalise on this by making their operating systems more agentic, or they will be reduced to nothing more than a hardware and media vendor.