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Its main services include ride-hailing, food delivery, payment and digital bank and more...

pavlov 2y ago
I 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 ago
  X 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 ago
  Kind 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 ago
  Not 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 ago
    The 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 ago
    Banks 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 ago
  Way 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...

I 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 ago
X 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 ago
Kind 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 ago
Not 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 ago
  The 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 ago
  Banks 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 ago
Way 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...