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'Next big things' are never the next big thing. What happened with Chatbots was the result of some very very poor 'ui translation' from Asian apps. The product
by madeofpalk 8y ago
'Next big things' are never the next big thing.
What happened with Chatbots was the result of some very very poor 'ui translation' from Asian apps. The product designers and managers of the western world looked at 'mega chat apps' like WeChat and Line that have all these built in apps and interfaces and tried to replicate that. Instead somehow they thought they were textual chat interfaces (buy plane tickets in natural language) when in reality they all had their own GUI with buttons and things to press.
Then all the businesses and agencies and consultants that thought they could cash in on this opportunity saw it and started pushing it even harder.
There was never any real user problem that this was solving - just businesses trying to cash in.
- darzu 8y ago> 'Next big things' are never the next big thing Counterpoints: web, mobile, cloud
- Bucephalus355 8y agoCountercounterpoint: cloning, the semantic web, and fog computing
- larkeith 8y agoThat's not really a counterargument when the original claim was "never" and parent provided examples of times it did occur.
- madeofpalk 8y agoArguably, these things already had significant traction before they became 'big' properly. iPhone had I think quite a bit of a slow crawl into shaping the mobile landscape, and then there were all the precursor smartphones before that. AWS existed before THE CLOUD being being screamed by gurus, and really, 'The Cloud' has never really amounted to much more than the continuation of AWS EC2. They were never the next big thing - one night we woke up and they were already the current big thing. Definitely the smart people could sense that it was happening, but there weren't medium articles about it :)