The idea of the OS as a super app is interesting and fits nicely with how I personally think the current AI wave will play out: Right now everything is its own

The idea of the OS as a super app is interesting and fits nicely with how I personally think the current AI wave will play out: Right now everything is its own product with all the overhead that it brings with it. Eventually, as more and more “AI” things (abstract on purpose) will be integrated on the OS level, we will have a more streamlined process for development of “smart” software products on such a OS. I put AI and smart in quotes because with our current understanding it means ML/DL which means things like voice and pattern recognition, text summarization, perfect OCR, text/content generation, visual indexing etc. We do know from experience that the way we interact with a typical OS, whether mobile or laptop/desktop, does not change very often. iOS was ground breaking because it put the context first. A decision that is still causing problems for power users as seen with the difficulties in becoming productive with iPads. Example: previously: PDF Reader program to show a pdf. Can be saved to disk and sent as file via mail now: pdf file as context passed between apps through share dialog for reading followed by mailing What interests me quite a lot is how we might interact with an OS that will become such a ‘smart OS-like super app’ by bundling the features mentioned above. Will they only exist as APIs for software developers to use on these systems, for ease of development? Or will they be somehow integrated into the common end users usage of and interaction with that system? I bet there is a lot of value in solving the latter