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Are we heading in the direction of WeChat where we have a single app as a platform?[1][2][3][4] [1] https://medium.com/@mg/there-s-a-chat-for-that-apple-s-bigg

• jonnycowboy 11y ago
  You mean like email? Email is still used for just about everything: "instant" messaging, to-do lists, appointments, letters, bills, etc. SMS could do most of that as well, and if you add an "AI" messager it could be pretty powerful. That said, an "AI" email interface would be just as useful.
  • viksit 11y ago
    @jonnycowboy - Email integration is already on the cards for Myra. Especially in things that are defer-able - for instance, in needing to do things like scheduling food delivery for 8pm via doordash, where you don't want to change from "work and email mode" to "pull out my phone to text" mode.
• viksit 11y ago
  I think of messaging apps as analogues to a browser, and those who offer services through them as analogues to a website. Ultimately, any one browser can't store _all_ the links in the world that you might need to use. You need something like a search engine. So no, I fundamentally disagree with A16Z and the wechat model - just because it worked on limited scale (think Yahoo directory in 1999) - doesn't mean its the way to the future. My $0.02 anyway :).