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Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized I bet people said they said thing about silicon chip market in the 80's. But look where Intel is now. They
by valarauca1 10y ago
Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized
I bet people said they said thing about silicon chip market in the 80's. But look where Intel is now. They have monopolized the desktop, server, and super computer markets.
- tim333 10y agoThere's a lot of cost in designing and making a modern microprocessor - many billion so it's hard to set up as a rival to Intel. Writing a taxi app less so. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342415)
- valarauca1 10y agoEvery single comment in that thread proves my point.
- jondubois 10y agoAgreed. With available open source libraries/tools, I could build a basic Uber clone on my own with no funding in maybe 2 or 3 months. I could not build a clone of an Intel chip in any amount of time - Even with a team of 100 engineers - The capital cost is just too massive.
- colejohnson66 10y agoWell, you could probably build a clone of their early chips (like the 8086 and such), but nothing "modern"
- pdog 10y ago> I could build a basic XYZ clone on my own with no funding in maybe 2 or 3 months. People said the exact same thing about Twitter (and every other popular app), but it isn't true. There's a lot more to building a successful company.