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We're talking about the generation that never learned to really do anything for themselves (gross generalization) and are currently expending all their efforts
by optimuspaul 10y ago
We're talking about the generation that never learned to really do anything for themselves (gross generalization) and are currently expending all their efforts to build services and apps that do everything that their parents did for them. Would Uber or Magic have been so successful without this generation? No (Yes), absolutely not (I'm sure it would have). This is the generation of "Can't someone else do it?"
Seriously though, cars are expensive, traffic and parking is crazy in many cities, infrastructure is falling apart, and the world is basically ending due to climate change... so are we really surprised that the this generation actually wants to a) be responsible and not contribute to this downward spiral or b) wants to live life to it's fullest and not be tied down to things like cars and houses. If car companies can't see that then they aren't asking them, because that is what many would say.
- Jtsummers 10y agoMagic preceded the Millennials. It definitely won the hearts and minds of the Gen X gamer crowd first (the ones with the money to burn when the game first came out in the early 90s). Uber is, fundamentally, no different than taxi services except that it allows average people to become drivers (taxis are either particularly exclusive requiring tests and certifications, or particularly bad like in most non-metropolitan towns that have them). Really, the basic use-case of Uber is what taxis should have done in the first place. GPS tracking + smartphones, they should've been connecting themselves to customers more intelligently. They didn't, Uber came in and swept up their business. That was their own fuck-up in many markets (in some markets the taxi services did do better, but not the majority, most still had traditional hailing or phoning in a taxi request).