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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by robertlagrant on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:38PM (#41841716)
Er no, they totally transformed things through technology as well. Their product was fantastic. Hail a cab in the 2000s in the UK and tell me Uber had no improvement for its customers.
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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by daxfohl on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:55PM (#41841887)
I understand GP's point, but to yours I'll add they have also open sourced and mainstreamed some of their key technologies. So it's not all bad.
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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by adamc on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:41PM (#41842325)
Not all bad != good.
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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by CPLX on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:10PM (#41842057)
Right but how much of this improvement came from the invention and popularity of smartphones and how much of the innovation came from a company called Uber.
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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by ahmeneeroe-v2 on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:26PM (#41842208)
Struggling to see the relevance of this question. How much of Uber's "innovation" was actually Ford/GM/Toyota innovation in car manufacturing?
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Re:Scale Ruins Everything by labster on Monday October 14, 2024 @06:05PM (#41842545)
But those car companies are just riding on the coattails of Exxon, Chevron and the like with their improvements in oil discovery and hydraulic fracking.
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