The post by @beaversteever claims mobile attention is finite—total user-phone-hours are fixed—so any new app must steal time from something else. They contend most people favor passive endless scrolling over learning new game mechanics, raising onboarding barriers. unusual_whales adds agentic AI drove many app launches, yet the FT finds little user uptake.
@beaversteever asserts total user-phone-hours are fixed and that attention is a zero-sum game, meaning new apps must capture time from existing activities.
total user-phone-hours are fixed. it's literally a zero sum game.
to gain traction you need to take user attention away from something else.
and most people prefer to scroll endlessly than to learn new game mechanics.
unusualwhales (@unusualwhales)
Agentic AI spurred a boom in mobile app releases, but there is no sign of these apps gaining traction, per FT:
— https://nitter.net/unusual_whales/status/2072655778000101383#m