Slack and the Decline of Bots
Remember when bots were the new apps? Now it’s the opposite.
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4 min readOct 22, 2019
“Bots are the new apps,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the company’s annual developer conference in 2016. His company had just updated Cortana, its virtual assistant, and built a system for developers to build bots of their own.
