Bots & Messaging -- fake it 'til you make it – Creandum Family – Medium

It's obvious that messaging as a new UI is becoming one of the new mega trends this year. Two weeks ago Apple announced with iOS 10 that it's opening up iMessages to outside developers, while Facebook's recent F8 developer conference kicked off both days with keynotes on bots and messaging. Microsoft, too, has opened up Skype messaging to third party developers through Cortana. With all these big American aircraft carriers all moving to get messaging and bot infrastructure on their platforms, one thing is clear: there is now enough widespread support to give messaging its proper place as a ubiquitous, smart, and natural UI for harnessing technology and getting things done. So why are the big platforms suddenly so interested in'opening up' their messaging infrastructure? This inspiration seems to be coming straight from WeChat.