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In Chicago I've seen taxi drivers using Uber X, but that may be a city-specific pilot. This TC interview with Uber indicates that Uber X drivers have TCP licenses, but may not necessarily drive limos or town cars:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-n...

Re:Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @02:05AM (#4752545)
If this survey by a mobile ad company is to be believed, things seem to have changed dramatically from the beginning of the year:

Oct 2012: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/android-smartphones-now-ha...

Jan 2012: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

Re:Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold on Friday November 02, 2012 @04:12PM (#4734521)
This. From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

And mobile web usage isn't looking much better for Android: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

No doubt more and more phones in pockets will be running Android. But how many will really be used like smart phones?

Re:Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities on Thursday September 20, 2012 @06:32PM (#4551106)
Interesting—in what ways was it better?
Curious about this as well.