5 reasons mobile apps still rule: The Conversational Economy, Part 2

GUEST: (This is Part 2 in a series on the Conversational Economy. Read Part 1 here.)
If these powerful forces and players are fueling the rapid rise of the Conversational Economy, why aren’t we there yet?
1. Fragmentation stunts developer ecosystem development
The new platform landscape is fragmented, and it’s unclear that we are headed for consolidation anytime soon. While we live in a dual-ecosystem mobile world with Android on the rise, for the past nine years everyone in the deve