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Chan: Chatbots slow down e-commerce; messaging should link to web views
“I think a lot of commerce actually doesn't need the conversation. And I don't think it, the dialogue, the back and forth chat is that additive. I take customer service aside from that because that's an instance where I feel like I want someone listening. I wan…”
Chen: Insurance sales will move to Amazon, Costco, and Facebook Messenger
“Why aren't I buying more insurance products at Costco or Amazon or through Facebook Messenger? And so, like, that will come.”
Evans: Apps building solely inside Facebook Messenger cannot reach $10B valuation
“You aren't ever going to be a ten billion or twenty billion dollar company, because they're not your users, they're all Facebook users.”
Evans: Facebook Messenger strategy forces Snapchat to compete with entire app store
“So what effectively what Facebook's trying to do is make Snapchat compete with the whole app store. Because Snapchat is only going to have the content that Snapchat dreams up, whereas Facebook Messenger will have the content that anybody can dream up and decid…”
Evans: Creating an app store inside Messenger just shifts discovery problems
“It's like, problem, the app store has two million things in it. Solution, create an app store inside Messenger. Problem, the Messenger app store has two million things inside it. Like, if you haven't actually done something, you have to do some other thing. Al…”
Pierce: Facebook Messenger lacks the network leverage of WeChat
“Facebook Messenger, which is probably the closest US analog to WeChat because WeChat in the US is nothing like WeChat in China, which is really interesting, but Facebook Messenger has this payment backbone. They have sort of an app store. It's not quite the sa…”
Evans: Facebook Messenger lacks WeChat's circular network effect
“WeChat has achieved the point that its success is circular, that you have to be on WeChat because everyone's on WeChat. Everyone's on WeChat because everyone's on WeChat. All brands are on it. And Facebook clearly isn't in that position at all. Certainly not o…”