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by cookiecaper 3819 days ago
I'm not really into the simulated live chat interface. It'd be a lot easier to click a button that said "Your spending" than to type out "Please show me my monthly spending Mr. Robot" (or to type out anything, especially on a phone).
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There's actually not a lot of typing involved since the responses are pre-populated for you. You can see an example of what that looks like on the marketing page.
This relies on you actually remembering the text commands though, as opposed to just seeing the different buttons and taping whichever one you care about.
It's kind of like a human-friendly CLI, so I can appreciate that, but I agree that there should at least be clickable defaults.
Sorry for not being more clear: the responses are just buttons that you click. For the majority of any conversation, there's no typing involved.
Why would you use the screen real estate on a "conversation" then instead of just showing the data?
If I had to guess it's probably because the conversational interface is designed to be less intimidating than a barrage of data.