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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by malvosenior on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:17PM (#19880632)
I've had very extensive and very negative taxi experiences around the world. Uber is night and day from a UX perspective. Being able to see where the car is when it's on the way, pre-inputting your destination, paying through the app... The gig economy aspect was definitely revolutionary as well. It's essentially changing the nature of work (love it or hate it).

As much as I love Amazon and always have, in the early days it was "just" ordering books online. Yes, that was great and again the UX was great but it didn't seem as revolutionary as Uber.

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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by semi-extrinsic on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:58PM (#19882168)
I don't see how the UX thing is so revolutionary. I live in a city with 120k people, and the app of the local taxi company here does all of those things as well.
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by nchie on Friday May 10, 2019 @09:54PM (#19884011)
But did they do that before Uber?
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by imajoo on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:02AM (#19884813)
Not OP, but if they weren't doing it before, and just copied Uber, doesn't that show how weak their moat is? The same could happen with autonomous vehicles as well then.
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by dasil003 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @12:45PM (#19887050)
The topic is revolutionary UX not moats.
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by imajoo on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:38PM (#19889346)
Ok, if the UX is revolutionary, then what prevents others from copying it? It still seems like the moat for the UX isn't that great.
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by malvosenior on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:03PM (#19882691)
That's not been my experience and definitely not before Uber existed and forced people to start copying them.
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Re:Uber opens at $42 per share by matt4077 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @04:39AM (#19885244)
That's some exemplary public service by Uber, actually. They may actually deserve their status as a non-profit.
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