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Bosworth: Direct AI interfaces will replace traditional app stores on future devices
“And in the future, you're not going to have an app store. Like I don't need, I don't want to go figure out what the app for my toaster was called and like make sure I make toast, man. Like I said, talk to the AI and let it handle the backend.”
Kalanick: Adams Automates 2-Million-Pound Machines Rather Than Building Apps
“This is why the Adams thing is cool. Because you're not dropping a fucking app in the app store. You're like, automating a two million pound machine going 35 miles an hour carrying gold.”
Hays: App store moat is being diminished by AI
“The app store as a moat has, is, is being diminished by AI.”
Hays: App Store Saw 85% Jump in New Apps Last Quarter
“The app store saw an 85% increase in new apps this past quarter.”
Generative AI apps paid Apple nearly $900 million in 2025 fees.
“Gen AI apps Paid Apple nearly nine hundred million dollar in App Store fees in 2025.”
ChatGPT generates 75% of Apple's generative AI App Store revenue.
“Three fourths of the revenue Apple rakes in from Gen AI apps in its App Store come from ChatGPT.”
Hays: App Store New App Growth Was Historically Under 10%
“In most recent quarters, new app count has grown less than 10%.”
Coogan: X categorizes itself as News to avoid competing with Instagram
“I'm actually surprised it is in productivity because X is famously in news, not in social networking. And so X will typically be at the top of the news subcategory because it would be much harder to compete in the product in the social networking category agai…”