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People can be illiterate, dyslexic, inebriated, dumb or with poor command of the language. Good luck with free-text interface. You'll pretty much would have ha
by varjag 3y ago
People can be illiterate, dyslexic, inebriated, dumb or with poor command of the language. Good luck with free-text interface.
You'll pretty much would have had human operators over every interaction. That very much hinders the Uber-like growth of the service.
- eru 3y agoIf you can support 95% of the market (with mechanical means), you can capture 95% of the market.
- varjag 3y agoThat wouldn't be 95% of market, more like 50-60%, and a strain to use even for those apt. Not everyone is an Infocom playing nerd.
- eru 3y agoNormal people use SMS just fine all the time. Falling back to a human operator isn't that bad either: just charge people a little bit extra to talk to a human.