Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate

Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by yeukhon on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:26PM (#14197131)

I prefer Gett for long commute. It gives you a firm quote so if your Uber/Lyft/Juno driver messed up enroute or there's a traffic, you don't pay the extra. From a user's perspective, this saves me money. I would take Gett to Barclay Center knowing Uber and Lyft would charge me high premium after game. Or trip from Manhattan back to Queens. There's also an option to make extra stop which is nice! Gett cars are the regular black SUV cars so much more comfortable.

This acquisition is nothing but acquiring users (although Junos has fewer drivers so fewer active users) and talents, as Gett itself can already do what Juno and other rider-service apps can do. I wonder if they will continue to run Juno as a standalone app like Seamless and Grubhub but share the same user database. I still wonder why Seamless and Grubhub can't shut down one of them, this seems like a marketing tactic than anything else, creating a diversion that there are other players in the market. Who knows, maybe there's tax advantage.

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Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by Spinfusor on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:55AM (#14201245)

Re Grubhub/Seamless (I used to work there):

The sense I got was that they haven't unified the brands yet because they're really afraid of messing up the NYC market. Grubhub merged with Seamless in 2013 because leadership wanted to get into NYC, and Seamless owned/owns NYC. It's a hugely profitable market for the company.

They've toyed with the idea of bringing the brands closer (particularly around the Grubhub rebrand last year), but nothing's happened so far.

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Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by yeukhon on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:30AM (#14203268)

I see. I can see the risk, although at this point both apps are virtually identical appearance wise and even function wise. For the G/S folks out there, not that I am picky, but seems like a good idea to consolidate. I was actually using Grubhub before downloading seamless then I wanted to try Seamless (I didn't know the merger until I downloaded both apps and realized they are the same).

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Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by WellDressed on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:43PM (#14197277)

Living in NYC also, I use Gett mostly and sometimes Juno (due to 30% off limited time promotion). I always ask drivers which service they like. Many do not like Uber or Lyft due to the % they take, compared to Gett/Juno.

Also, I found it interesting that nearly all drivers have multiple cell phones logged into separate services, sometimes Gett and Juno! I wonder what the percentage of drivers Gett will be picking up that were already Juno drivers.

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Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by Eridrus on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:40PM (#14199269)

Do you just not use Uber Pool/Lyft Line? Those provide fixed prices and seem many times cheaper than the rates on Gett/Juno. Currently Lyft line is $25 to get me to Brooklyn, while Gett is $60.

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Re:Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber riva... by yeukhon on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:02AM (#14201031)

I used them too but at peak hours when demand is high Uber and Lyft quite goes up. Gett usually doesn't.

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