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Yes, but the question was “does this exist anywhere other than in China?”

China is a pretty specific and unique market. Perhaps the existence of such an “everything app” is related to that, explaining why it doesn’t exist elsewhere?



Yes, they exist elsewhere. Check out Grab (southeast Asia), Line (Japan, Taiwan), Kakao (Korea), Gojek (Indonesia), PayTm (India) or any number of everything-apps.


Kaspi in Kazakhstan


Telegram moving in this direction very fast. At this moment, telegram is used as news, blogs, file transfer app, chat etc. Recently added miniapps with real payments integration, "stars" as internal currency


You're getting downvoted mysteriously, as this is indeed true. All of Telegram's recent updates have been toward this purpose.




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