The App is Dead. And IoT Killed It. - Unified Inbox

Did you download it "willingly," or were you "forced" to download it to be able to operate a new device? Like millions of people around the world, you may have received a shiny new device as a holiday gift at the end of last year. It was a smart device, connected to the internet and controlled and managed through an app. What?! I have to stop everything just to download (and then keep updated) another app on my smart phone just to use, just to "talk" to my device? In contrast to a GUI that defines rules for each interaction -- rules which, frustratingly, change from app to app -- text-based, conversation interactions are liberating in their familiarity.