alt Hacker NewsI have a hot take on this: I don't think iOS and Android have long for this world. In five years, phones will just be an AI device. Local compute when possible, cloud compute when required. The OS will be whatever the AI dynamically creates for the user's tastes and requirements. People won't buy apps anymore. They'll create them on the fly as needed. In rare cases where an app purchase happens (such as a YouTube subscription), the AI will facilitate the purchase with Google's AI.
This makes me tremendously excited someday to take a hammer to my current phone until it is reduced to fine dust, replace it with a perfectly dumb landline, and never give the matter a second thought.