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Grab also has Uber-like service doesn't it?
by a1o 2y ago
Grab also has Uber-like service doesn't it?
- yen223 2y agoGrab is basically Uber + Ubereats in south-east Asia (Quite literally - Uber sold off their SEA operations to Grab in exchange for a stake in Grab, when Uber exited the SEA market)
- itake 2y agoGrab is also a bank
- misonic 2y agoIts main services include ride-hailing, food delivery, payment and digital bank and more...
- pavlov 2y agoI gather it's kind of a "super-app" for its region, similar to WeChat in China? (Or what Elon Musk wants X to be, but so far isn't even in the ballpark...)
- infecto 2y agoX has nothing to do in this comparison. Use Grab a lot and I don't consider it a super-app. It truly is the Ride Hailing/Food delivery service app to use in certain parts of SE Asia. WeChat has a massive ecosystem in that its chat, payments, and a million company built "apps".
- JimDabell 2y agoKind of, but not exactly. Super-apps like WeChat have a huge number of independent apps within it, operated by third-parties. Apps like Grab are more like different divisions within the same organisation. So Grab is more like Uber + Uber Eats + InstaCart all operated by the same company, inside a single app. But sometimes people call things like Grab super-apps as well. I think it’s probably wrong to describe something as a super-app unless it has third-party apps within it.
- nsonha 2y agoNot just Grab, most of tech giants in Asia (granted, I only know about the sinosphere) pursuit the "super app" idea. Here in Vietnam even the bank apps try to be super apps, it's somewhat hilarious but part of asian tech identity that makes us unique compare to the western tech scene.
- JimDabell 2y agoThe most puzzling one for me is AirAsia. Like I’m going to use an airline app to order food to my home. At least use a separate brand!
- manquer 2y agoBanks all over the world do it . American banks do it too. In many bank apps they will do travel, stay, cars, vacations, shopping and other dozen things like that . It is not just banks , airlines do it too, they are so good at it, they are sometimes called finance companies with incidental air transport business.
- netsharc 2y agoWay off-topic, but is there a betting pool that Elon Musk is going to make it mandatory for the government agencies to use Super-X to do their work? And maybe for citizens too? It will obviously fail-whale all the time, but hey, he'll ignore the parts where it's not working when stroking his ego. Somewhere there's a Dr. Strangelove kind of comedy where a wrongly addressed tweet sends the nukes flying, because the competent engineers on X will make an API over tweets, you see...
- buildbuildbuild 2y agoYes. And they accept cryptocurrency natively (without using gift cards), extremely practical for believers in the space. Uber also owns a significant share of Grab.
- yen223 2y agoMore crucial to their success was that Grab accepts cash payments. This alone was the reason why Grab succeeded and Uber failed in SEA.
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- renewiltord 2y agoInteresting because when I traveled in India they had cash as an option for Uber. I didn’t try UberEats though.
- manquer 2y agoUber Eats exited India long back. Cash is not only accepted but in specific Indian cities expected , I.e. the driver will call you and if you don’t offer cash they will cancel the booking or won’t show up at all .
- jt2190 2y agoCan you elaborate? In the U.S. you place an order and are quoted a price which you pay (typically with a credit card) before your order is sent for delivery. Receiving a call from the delivery driver about paying in cash would feel like an extra fee. In the situation you describe is no payment made in advance?
- unmole 2y agoThe commenter was talking about cabs and autorickshaws, not food delivery drivers. Uber and others pay out on a weekly basis. Cabbies would rather have the cash now. And by cash, they mean a direct payment outside the app. Typically this would mean a direct transfer via UPI.