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Waiting on Lyft to go international and disrupt Uber's hegemony.
by lobo_tuerto 9y ago
Waiting on Lyft to go international and disrupt Uber's hegemony.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoI can't wait to have two 200mb apps on my phone fulfilling the same need instead of one!
- theDoug 9y agoI found out about m.lyft.com and m.uber.com the other day. Both work pretty well, and I hope they save you as much space as they saved me! (Uber's app was 451MB on my phone)
- beal 9y agoMost of my ride sharing has been booked through their integration with google maps app
- philsnow 9y agoalso, the uber app tracks your location while you're not using the app (they say they only do so for ~5 minutes after your drop off, but you have to trust them). whereas you can deny the m.uber.com browser tab the ability to get your location from the browser (caveat: [0]), and you can close the tab when you're in the car. [0] companies can still get rough location information from your mobile IP address [1], because of course that's a revenue stream for all the big mobile carriers. [1] https://www.xda-developers.com/services-grab-location-info-data-privacy/ https://www.xda-developers.com/services-grab-location-info-d...
- woolvalley 9y agoYou know that isnt true anymore with the 5m location thing
- linkregister 9y agoOn iOS this has been changed to “when the app is open” for months.
- philsnow 9y agoIf they were to change it back, would you have to re-authorize that permission? I really don't know.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoThe Lyft app is 17.38 MB, and the Uber app is 35.04 MB.
- MichaelGG 9y agoOn my Android phone, the system says Uber is 190MB plus 3MB of data.
- wlesieutre 9y agoAre you looking at a download size or installed size? I have Uber on my iPhone and it's 150 MB for the "App Size" and another 14 MB for "Documents and Data".
- bhandziuk 9y agoLyft app size 43.33 MB, user data 1.09 MB. Android 8.0.0. I wonder why such a spread in size?
- lern_too_spel 9y agoProbably AOT compilation and extraction of some resources from the APK. I don't have either installed, but my point was that 200 MB seems like a gross exaggeration. At worst, you could use ride.lyft.com in your web browser.
- puzzle 9y agoOr you can use Google Maps to do the same for both.
- MichaelGG 9y agoYeah Lyft was nice in the US, but in Guatemala I can't go back to life before Uber. I hope Lyft brings in a higher class service though like Uber Black.
- xapata 9y agoOh yeah, Guate taxis are awful -- having to negotiate separately for each ride is crazy.
- Kiro 9y agoWhat makes you think Lyft is any better than Uber?
- tyrust 9y agoTheir comment didn't imply that they think this. Competition, generally speaking, is good.