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And it sucked. The drivers could never find where I was, or wanted to go. It took a lot longer for them to arrive when they could find me. I had to carry cash,
by lambda 4y ago
And it sucked. The drivers could never find where I was, or wanted to go. It took a lot longer for them to arrive when they could find me. I had to carry cash, because half of them claimed their credit card readers were broken.
There are problems with Uber and Lyft, but they were both such a huge improvement over traditional cabs that it's not surprising that they quickly became popular.
- weego 4y agoTheir app was the only differentiator. My local Scottish towns taxi company has an app that is feature complete for everything needed (granular location on me and driver, call through to driver or visa-versa, auto payment, specify private or business (auto generate receipt if business) etc etc. That doesn't and has never required a multi $billion wedge driven into gap in the market. The whole idea that it needed a single monolith to spark change was a nonsense.
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