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Uber's primary competitor are taxicabs - they are a transportation company.
by barkingcat 9y ago
Uber's primary competitor are taxicabs - they are a transportation company.
- criddell 9y agoThere's a Quora question[1] about this that has a different take than you: > Uber is a tech company because that's what we do. We create a service that powers a marketplace through technology, and we provide apps that let people participate to this marketplace. Specifically, that marketplace lets individual users or businesses buy transportation services from partners. > We are not a transportation company because we don't transport goods or people - our partners do. We just facilitate that. And we are not a cab company for the same reasons, and on top of this, we don't own a fleet of vehicles. 1: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Uber-considered-a-technology-company-and-a-lot-of-people-place-it-among-tech-giants-like-Google-Facebook-etc https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Uber-considered-a-technology-co...