is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. The tyranny of software is almost over.

Anyone can build an app now. But nobody seems to care. Well, not nobody. VCs keep funding startups that add AI to, well, everything. But users aren’t buying the massive influx of new apps. In a chart ...