Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B

Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by TylerE on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:08PM (#18455082)

Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.

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Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:33PM (#18455304)

> Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.

They did (well, it at least has multiple Uber and Lyft services, and I don't know that they get a kickback); the app is called “Google Maps”.

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Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by majani on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:26PM (#18456099)

Uber forbids price comparison in their TOS and actively threaten to shut down price comparison sites that use their API: https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyfts-never-ending-ques...

I guess the plan for Uber was always to use low prices to win the market and jack them back up later. Price comparison would interfere with this plan.

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Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by paulddraper on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:41PM (#18456434)

Did they make a buddy deal for Google Maps then?

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Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by dzhiurgis on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:21PM (#18456072)

Such API’s should be mandated by government - after all road surface is limited resource hence its a natural monopoly.

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Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B by gregoryrueda on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:13PM (#18455132)

Saw a web app that did this a few years ago. Likely the companies made changes to their API’s. Would love to see it again though.

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