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I hate super apps. It made me appreciate the simple and clean UX of apps developed in the US and Europe. Nothing worse than opening up Shoppe or Grab and imme
by refurb 4y ago
I hate super apps. It made me appreciate the simple and clean UX of apps developed in the US and Europe.
Nothing worse than opening up Shoppe or Grab and immediately being slammed with 3 dozen icons that you need to scroll through.
Hell, even my banking app looked like that. Select "other requests" and I get to scroll through about 40 different icons for stuff to do. And they just offer banking.
Apps like Grab offer banking, transport, food, digital wallet, etc.
Seems super clunky to me, but what I've been told is the goal is for that app to do "everything" so you never need a different app.
- lawgimenez 4y agoOur family uses Grab app a lot and yes the dashboard is a mess. At one point Grab has games in it too.
- hestefisk 4y agoGrab also has / had a built-in messaging functionality. The UI is a sad mess.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoThe other problem with super apps, at least where I am now, is a quarter of the functions don’t work, or work but break the viewport, or work but put the app into an unusable state until you hard reload it. The more functions there are, the more testing that needs to happen and doesn’t… “in emerging markets”.
- hestefisk 4y agoThis is exactly what the DBS app is like as well.