Why Chatbots Will Soon Kill the App Store - The New Stack

"Conversation is the command line of tomorrow," so asserted Daniel Harvey, experience design director at the SapientNitro marketing agency, speaking at the Interact UK conference earlier this month. The command-line interface (CLI) dates back to the 1960s and has long offered us an efficient way to have computers do our bidding, as long as the right syntax and grammar are in place. "It's very much the case where you can actually live in just Messenger and get everything done that you need to do." -- Daniel Harvey In our new world of chatbots, we are following right in line with the CLI, but without anyone having to type a word. From Siri to IBM's dear Watson, the conversational user interface is taking over where apps left off. Chatbots can interact with humans to learn what they are looking for and perhaps guide them to the correct place.