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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:11PM (#13787787)
It's not an argument. Getting people to "stampede" to you is trivial - just drop the prices well below market average, and the herd will quickly follow, regardless of whether or not your service is actually better. Doing that is difficult (that's the point of competition), but becomes much easier if you can blatantly break the law and get away with it.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by odbol on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:30PM (#13789271)
Come on, there's no way you can say taxis are superior to a frickin button that you press to instantly get a car. Even if the prices were the same, I'm pretty sure most people would still choose Uber.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by TeMPOraL on Saturday March 04, 2017 @03:54AM (#13790035)
In most of Europe, taxi companies had mobile applications for some time now. Uber is much less innovative than it may seem in America.