AI: Tired of Scrolling Apps on Devices | New Media Show

Name: AI: Tired of Scrolling Apps on Devices | New Media Show
Uploaded: 2026-03-05T21:43:24+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Rob Greenlee
Description: In this segment of the New Media Show, Rob Greenlee and Speaker A discuss the emerging shape of AI applications on personal devices. Greenlee predicts…

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In this segment of the New Media Show, Rob Greenlee and Speaker A discuss the emerging shape of AI applications on personal devices. Greenlee predicts that the current flood of mobile apps will condense into a handful—perhaps two to five—of AI-powered agents, each hosting its own built‑in app ecosystem. These agents will rely on existing API‑based platforms that aggregate services, though it remains uncertain which aggregators will endure. The conversation also highlights a growing user fatigue with endless scrolling through apps, prompting a desire for more streamlined, purpose‑driven AI agents. A critical layer of the discussion centers on permissions and trust: for agents to act on users’ behalf, they must be granted access to sensitive data such as email, financial accounts, and credit‑card information, raising concerns about security and user confidence.

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I do wonder, you know, I heard this talk a lot about, I mean, at some point we will probably have just a handful of AI apps on our devices, just like maybe 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. It depends on how many we're subscribing to. And they will all have like their own app ecosystem built into them. Yeah. And those agents will work with those apps to accomplish things in our lives.
Um, yeah, I mean, the API model is alive and well, and there's a lot of platforms out there that are already aggregating. Just have to figure out which ones are going to stick around.
Yeah, so these, these days of having a sea of apps on your phone, um, may be limited.
I'm okay with that.
You're tired of scrolling.
Yeah, I'm like, wait, what are these apps that I downloaded that I can't remember what they do?
So do I click to make You know, and if you don't, uh, and then there's gonna be some mechanism to be able to connect them, connect them up somehow. And then I think the other layer is permissions, uh, and, uh, trust of giving them access to like our emails or financial information or all those kinds of things, credit cards, to do things on our behalf. So that's, that's, that's where we're