The Apple-Android duopoly is under attack from OpenAI, Meta and Amazon
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WHEN LAURENE POWELL JOBS asked Sam Altman and Sir Jony Ive about the artificial-intelligence “thing” they were working on during a recent interview, both men were coy. But Mr Altman, OpenAI’s boss, did suggest that using the new device would feel different to the all-consuming iPhone created by Sir Jony and Ms Jobs’s late husband. He likened the experience of using smartphones to walking through Times Square in New York, with its flashing lights and loud noises. Mr Altman and Sir Jony are not the only ones working on an alternative. The race to unseat the smartphone is on.
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