Tom Snyder: Galaxy S26's agentic AI could hollow out the app economy
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By Tom Snyder
Published on March 2, 2026.
The Galaxy S26, unveiled by Samsung, could disrupt the app economy, as its agentic AI could potentially lead to the death of software as a service (SaaS), according to Tom Snyder. He argues that agents can help enterprises create their own purpose-built tools that can outperform vendor-built platforms designed to serve the masses. However, he also warns that the disruption of SaaS may also be coming for the app industry. The Galaxy S25, unveiled this week, features multiple AI agents integrated at the operating system level, capable of acting across apps and orchestrating multi-step workflows on a user’s behalf. This shift from the app to an agentic layer could shift the user's interaction from the current app to the agent of the agent agent. This change is not cosmetic but structural. The future of mobile interaction lies in the hands of users who navigate multiple dashboards and interact with a single conversational layer of AI agents instead of interacting with multiple systems. The S26 does not eliminate the need for an interface, but demonstrates the first step toward reducing their necessity.
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