The article I wrote a couple of days ago about Doubao Mobile Assistant went viral, and it made me realize one thing: everyone has been suffering from the 'App islands' problem for way too long. Today, I stumbled upon a clip of Elon Musk’s interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, and it gave me chills. In the video, he confidently predicted: 'In the next 5-6 years, phones will be completely de-Apped—no operating systems, no icons. Phones will just be AI edge nodes, and all your needs will be generated by AI in real-time.' Back then, a lot of people thought he was just making stuff up, like something out of a sci-fi movie. But when I saw the AI-powered phone, it suddenly hit me: the future Musk talked about has already quietly begun. What does 'de-Apping' mean? It doesn’t mean software disappears—it means the era of humans as operators is over. For the past decade, we’ve been trapped in the walled gardens of meticulously designed apps—opening, closing, switching, copying from one app, pasting into another. We weren’t just users; we were also the laborers of our phones. But now, with AI mobile assistants, even though they still rely on apps at the backend, they’ve already 'killed' apps in terms of logic—they’ve merged all these fragmented services into a seamless data flow based on our 'intentions.' Musk said: 'You just need to say what you want, and AI will handle the rest.' Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing now?