Viv. Game-changer, stepping-stone or misguided?
Andrew Gerrard
I help people, businesses, and their teams, understand, create, and take control of the opportunities and challenges of AI.
I don't know as I haven't seen it, but John Batelle (NewCo, Web2 Summit, Wired, Industry Standard) suggests here that Viv does seem to offer a tantalising vision of how apps and APIs are coming together into intelligent platforms - designed to seamlessly connect and integrate the everyday personal and business tools and services we use and now take for granted. The ambition is laudable, and many, I'm sure, will find merit in their approach.
But it's a bold step to suggest that Apple and Google might become irrelevant just yet - there are an awful lot of paradigm shifts (think technology, user behaviour, developers, adoption, market forces, competitive behaviour, regulation etc.) that need to take place before that happens. However, if there is going to be a better way then maybe we should start paying more attention to services like this.
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8 年The demo looks slick - and the idea of dynamic program code writing looks interesting (although not exactly a new idea). If it actually does what it says, then could be part of the next wave of genuine innovation (along with blockchain, etc). But will it survive as an independent concept - or will Apple/Google/Facebook snaffle it up?