Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber...
by bradleybuda on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:15PM
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How do "transportation" companies (dockless scooters in this case) have network effects? The automobile industry, which is about as mature as markets get, has seven companies in the US with at least 5% market share and the leader (GM) has merely 17%, and is largely bereft of command-and-control economic policies.
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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber...
by greglindahl on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:24PM
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For a scooter, I have to walk until I find a scooter for a company that I'm enrolled with. Do I even have company X's app on my phone to show their scooter nearby? If I run across company Y's scooter, how much effort is it for me to enroll to use it? And is company Z offering me a bulk discount?
All of these are totally different from buying a car.
Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber...
by superchink on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:04PM
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Dumb question: are you arguing that renting a scooter is harder than buying a car? Or easier?
Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber...
by greglindahl on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:12PM
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Neither. I'm saying they're completely different things with respect to network effects, in response to someone who thought they were similar in some fashion.