Your Next Must-Download App Is 'Path Talk'
Let's face it, the very worst thing in the entire world is talking on the phone.
The worst phone conversation of all is the one where you have to call your favorite pizza place to make a delivery order because, although you do 99% of your take-out ordering over Seamless, your favorite pizza place is stuck in 1987 and does not believe in online orders.
So, you have to call them up and shout your address and shout the seven toppings you want. The guy on the other end might not hear you or understand you because it's really noisy over there and, well, English might be his second language. The conversation will hardly be conversation at all. It'll be a brusque and inefficient exchange of data, garnished with a few hollow pleasantries.
Imagine there was an app that would make this very worst thing in the world go away in a snap.
Imagine no more because such an app exists! It is called Talk, and you can find it in the Apple App Store under the name Path Talk.
The app works and looks like a simple messaging app like Whatsapp or Line or whatever. You type text in. You get text messages back.
The big difference is, with Talk, you can send text messages to all sorts of phone numbers — including the one for your favorite pizza place.
What happens is, some guy somewhere that Talk is (hopefully) paying, gets your text message, picks up the phone, calls the pizza place (or restaurant or dry cleaner or whomever you ahve to call) and relays your message. Any message back gets relayed via text — with a push notification alerting you the text has arrived.
The app is free.
I used Talk to order pizza right before the Super Bowl started last night, and it was amazing.
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New Homes Sales & Marketing at Northstar 2000 Ltd
10 年This can't be true! So lazy!
Not for profit financial leader
10 年So TTY service is now available to all.
EFL & EAP Tutor
10 年This just creates a middle-man, the guy at Talk. It's pretty sad if occasionally we can't pick up the phone to talk to people, and will resort to every means possible not to have to use the phone. Admittedly, it can feel daunting sometimes, depending on the call you're making, but it's really not worth creating all this effort on the part of other people to avoid it, it's just talking to someone! I did wonder if this was a joke, but I can imagine this sadly being a real app....
Supply Chain Systems Analyst at Velcro Companies
10 年I'm not sure I understand the benefit in this example. The beginning of the article describes part of the disconnect as being the pizza place employee not hearing the order correctly. The description of the app is that you text your order to someone else who calls the pizza place. If they couldn't understand you, why would they understand the Talk representative? Sure it could work in other environments. I just don't see it providing clearer communication if that was your main complaint.