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Thu, Oct 15
Doubao phone assistant ends its notice period as 153 apps opt out of screen automation
The hardest problem for phone agents is not model capability but who owns the entry point: whoever taps the screen for the user is diverting attention that used to belong to the apps.
Tue, Oct 6
Doubao's team is said to have worked through the Mid-Autumn holiday for six days to rush out a personal assistant, Spell, aimed at Meta's Muse
A big company can rebuild a product in six days but cannot get other companies' apps to open up to it in six days, so the bottleneck for personal assistants in China is access, not the model.
Tue, Sep 15
ByteDance ships the consumer Doubao phone assistant, debuting on Nubia's NaviX Ultra on September 16
Letting each app declare its own consent solves compliance first, and leaves the experience ceiling for a later version.