AI is not a new consumer platform like web or mobile
Mark Pincus · Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jun 23, 2026 · at 36:15
Mark Pincus compares AI product distribution challenges to previous consumer computing platform shifts.
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“AI itself isn't a new platform. So when you think about new platforms like that used to be new mobile game councils, but you know, the web and the web in a browser was a new platform and mobile was a new platform. We all move into a place of discovery where we're talking about the new apps and services and we're downloading them. And now we don't download new apps.”
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