Blogger likens Agents to BlackBerry: the mobile-office narrative won't save them
oran_ge · x · 2026-09-08
- Blogger orange argues that "general" vs "office" Agent is a meaningless distinction: the people who need Agents overlap heavily with office workers, and most people don't need an Agent at all.
- He draws a BlackBerry analogy: BlackBerry's story was "mobile office," but once mobile computing went mainstream via the iPhone, nobody talked about mobile office anymore — and the office-only BlackBerry died.
- His broader take: efficiency-driven tasks will eventually need no humans; people shouldn't be efficiency tools but should create things from scratch. He recommends a podcast featuring Zeng Ming on this theme.
Related event: Blogger Compares General Agents to BlackBerry's Fall(3 posts)→
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