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technical / June 20, 2025 (1y ago)

The End of Software

The software 'app' container is dissolving. Capabilities will soon live everywhere, summoned on demand.

By Aloy Sathekge

🧠 The End of Software: From Apps to Everywhere

For decades, software has lived in containers, tidy boxes we called apps. You wanted to write? Open Word. Edit a photo? Launch Photoshop. Message a friend? Tap open WhatsApp. These containers gave us structure. They defined interaction.

But something's changing.

We're witnessing the slow, seismic dissolving of the software container, and entering an era where you don't open apps anymore. You just summon capabilities.


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