Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue

Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by anexprogrammer on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:04AM (#13217600)

Quite a few of the cab firms did - many used the same app skinned for each taxi co. I forget who made it now.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by matt_wulfeck on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:11AM (#13217626)

Yes but you needed a different app for each taxi company. That's a terrible experience.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by kbart on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:20AM (#13218093)

"Yes but you needed a different app for each taxi company."

Depends on a market I guess. Here you have a single app for all local taxi companies (actually, there are few competing apps, but you get a point), you can even select which companies do you want to use via checkboxes, because their price differs. Same centralized service works with SMS too, if you don't want to install app or have an ancient cell phone.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by henrikschroder on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:25PM (#13223593)

Cool, but where's "here"? :-)

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by sangnoir on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:35AM (#13217945)

It's not that bad: Lyft, Uber and Hailo don't share a common app either.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by kahnpro on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:58AM (#13219071)

And guess what Uber and Lyft are? Two different taxi companies with two different apps. I'm not sure what you think has changed here?

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by _nedR on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:05AM (#13219841)

Yeah, but Uber and Lyft are not restricted to one city or country. No Taxi company (of the kind that actually owns and operates their own fleet of cars) could do that.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by user5994461 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:48AM (#13221498)

You only need one or the other. Not both.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by moogly on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:14AM (#13219166)

So you are advocating a world-wide taxi monopoly?

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