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If I were CEO of Uber, I would want Lyft to survive in order to avoid anti-trust issues. I suppose Uber can point to taxi companies as competition, but at the
by twblalock 10y ago
If I were CEO of Uber, I would want Lyft to survive in order to avoid anti-trust issues.
I suppose Uber can point to taxi companies as competition, but at the rate those are dying off, and considering that Uber's app puts Uber in something of a new category, I would want to hedge my bets and keep Lyft around in case a regulator doesn't take the taxi argument seriously.
- bazqux2 10y agoMicrosoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.
- samfisher83 10y agoMicrosoft still owns the majority (90%+) of the desktop market and the office market. They always had kind of crappy mobile os and that hasn't changed.
- tuxracer 10y agoSure but the smartphone space at the time was an insignificant percentage of the market. That's by far no longer the case now. Having a crappy mobile OS in 2000 is a magnitudes smaller problem than having a crappy mobile OS in 2016.
- user5994461 10y agoIs there any reason to believe that Apple would have follow led the way to mobile/phone/tablet if it were acquired by Microsoft a long time ago?
- 1_listerine_pls 10y agoLike Google and Yahoo. Hey Marissa! wanna be CEO?
- nbadg 10y agoFor what it's worth, the article's title caption reads > However, Uber’s CEO is said to oppose an acquisition at any price due to antitrust concerns. So pretty clearly, Kalanick agrees.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoSo, Uber would not pay any price, but a maximum of $2 billion?
- morenoh149 10y agoUber pays $0. Others should pay $2 billion says uber.