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I suspect that will get flushed out during their "wait and see" period of how developers use Viv. There are a couple of scenarios 1. Viv's "experience" is inte
by edwhitesell 10y ago
I suspect that will get flushed out during their "wait and see" period of how developers use Viv. There are a couple of scenarios
1. Viv's "experience" is integrated into existing apps. So it knows you like your friends new service because that's the App you're in. (Unlikely based on the goals discussed in the video)
2. There are Viv "add-ons" that let you preference one over another. This sounds like the most-likely scenario if Viv is to stay neutral.
3. It's commerce-driven. Viv decides which services are prefered based on who pays the highest for "cab/car service" searches. Basically, the current search advertising model.
#3 seems the most likely to me, because it also opens up a host of other interesting scenarios related to existing current SEO business. However, I'd love to be wrong and that it stays neutral (#2).
- tedmiston 10y agoIn (3), I wonder who will collect the referral commission. I suppose we could see a revenue split like what Apple does for in-app purchases.
- edwhitesell 10y agoI bet that depends on branding. If Viv ends up being the "front-end", they probably collect the commission. If they end up whitelabling the Viv "product(s)", then whoever has their name on it. Could be both.
- Animats 10y agoViv's model of seller interaction seems to be the same as for the pre-Apple version of Siri. Viv cuts a deal with sellers to get an API so they can talk to the seller in some coherent way. They don't try to work through apps intended for humans.
- bobsil1 10y agoViv tries to get partners to register their API, domain specific verbs and NL training terms in Viv's back end.