By skyforbes 
For anyone who opens more than three apps a day to get work done.
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You probably missed it. This year, OpenAI released three features that most people thought were just updates. They were not updates. They were the first version of a new operating system where you never touch an app icon again.
This is not for people who use ChatGPT to write birthday poems. This is for anyone tired of switching between twelve tabs and six apps just to book a flight, make a playlist, and email the team about it.
Here is what changed. ChatGPT can now control other apps directly. Tell it “Spotify, make a workout playlist” and it creates one without opening Spotify. Say “Expedia, find cheap flights to Tokyo in March” and you get results inside the chat window. No app switching. No browser tabs. Just conversation.
The speed of this should scare you. By January 2025, ChatGPT had partnerships with Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Booking.com, Figma, and Coursera. Uber and DoorDash are coming next. And it is working as of October 6, 2025 as a proof of concept. If you can name a daily-use app…