Mobile messaging conjures a commerce platform
America is finally discovering what Asia has known for years: mobile messaging is a commerce platform.
These developments herald what Chris Messina recently described as a new trend towards “conversational commerce,” in which users will be able to shed the need for countless apps from different companies in favor a simple mobile messaging interface.
“Conversational Commerce is about delivering convenience, personalisation, and decision support while people are on the go, with only partial attention to spare,” Messina says. Put more simply: we all text more than ever, so why not expand texting’s potential to sending payments, buying products, ordering on-demand services, paying bills, and more?
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