YMMV obviously, but I think the Google assistant has been mostly accurate (in my case). I follow NBA, and have a few friends in a Facebook group chat where we

YMMV obviously, but I think the Google assistant has been mostly accurate (in my case). I follow NBA, and have a few friends in a Facebook group chat where we just talk about NBA. I tried to move the group to Allo, because the assistant is actually very relevant. When we have a debate about a player, being able to write "@google How many rebounds per game did Dwight Howard have last season?" And get results right away is actually really perfect for us. Here was the problem, the group didn't want to download another chat app. A few folks wanted us to switch to iMessage, some folks to GroupMe. We ended up switching to GroupMe. The problem as I see it is that it is hard to move people to use new chat apps because, as the article mentions, there are just so many chat apps (add GroupMe to the list). I think what will end up happening is that Slack will dominate for businesses, WhatsApp for messages with international members, iMessage for iOS families and friends, Facebook chat for the one off messages to folks that don't have the other apps. A prediction at least...