Rhee: Mobile apps will not disappear because companies will not unify
Sokwoo Rhee · The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators · Jan 13, 2025 · at 17:15
Sokwoo Rhee (Head of LG NOVA) discusses whether AI agents will make standalone mobile applications obsolete.
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“Actually, I don't agree that apps will disappear, and here's why. If you have a four, let's say you have a 30 different apps, in theory, you don't need 30 apps. You need, maybe, if all these vendors and companies work together for one single app, that can do everything, like that can do Uber, that can do Netflix, then you just use one app. It's same deal. So basically, even if you have AI in play, it doesn't mean all these 100,000 of companies are going to Actually unify under one umbrella at one. I don't think it's going to happen.”
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