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Quite a few of the cab firms did - many used the same app skinned for each taxi co. I forget who made it now.
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Quite a few of the cab firms did - many used the same app skinned for each taxi co. I forget who made it now.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoYes but you needed a different app for each taxi company. That's a terrible experience.
- sangnoir 10y agoIt's not that bad: Lyft, Uber and Hailo don't share a common app either.
- kbart 10y ago"Yes but you needed a different app for each taxi company." Depends on a market I guess. Here you have a single app for all local taxi companies (actually, there are few competing apps, but you get a point), you can even select which companies do you want to use via checkboxes, because their price differs. Same centralized service works with SMS too, if you don't want to install app or have an ancient cell phone.
- henrikschroder 10y agoCool, but where's "here"? :-)
- kahnpro 10y agoAnd guess what Uber and Lyft are? Two different taxi companies with two different apps. I'm not sure what you think has changed here?
- _nedR 10y agoYeah, but Uber and Lyft are not restricted to one city or country. No Taxi company (of the kind that actually owns and operates their own fleet of cars) could do that.
- user5994461 10y agoYou only need one or the other. Not both.
- moogly 10y agoSo you are advocating a world-wide taxi monopoly?