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This is pretty clever design to me. If Apple & Google don't try to change their policies to skirt around it, it seems like a good way to build so-called super a

This is pretty clever design to me. If Apple & Google don't try to change their policies to skirt around it, it seems like a good way to build so-called super apps on their respective platforms. Building a Telegram bot is incredibly easy, and a lot of digital services are more then capable of being handled in that format. Being able to easily charge for that built into the actual software library? Win-win to me.

Pufferbo 2y ago
I mean there’s already examples of this: Line and WeChat. I can only speak on Line. It has so many things built into it. Including: a news app, retail coupons, calling, messaging, payment (both in app and at retail). A few more extreme things the app offers: cellular plans, car/bike/home/life insurance, and brokerage services. Another example of a “super” app, but one that’s not built off a messaging platform would be PayPay. It’s a popular QR code payment platform in Japan. It includes many of the services offered by Line but in a more integrated way.