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That’s a lazy comparison. The only meaningful choice you have with Uber is when to drive. A better comparison would be a general contractor in your city. You c
by ryanwaggoner 8y ago
That’s a lazy comparison. The only meaningful choice you have with Uber is when to drive.
A better comparison would be a general contractor in your city. You can build for yourself, for others on spec, custom per customer, tract homes, etc. The rules for where and how you can build are clearly laid out in advance in the building code. You’ll need inspections and sign-offs from the building dept that you’re following the building code. It’s sometimes annoying, and occasionally unfair. But if you want to build in their jurisdiction, you play by their rules. You’re welcome to go build in the middle of nowhere where building codes are lax or non-existent, but guess what, there are no customers there.
- amelius 8y ago> That’s a lazy comparison. In both cases, you are operating inside a platform economy. I.e., an economy that's embedded inside the real economy, and it's being regulated by a company (as opposed to the government). These companies can do anything they want. The premise is "if you don't like what company X does, then find work elsewhere".
- lazerwalker 8y agoI don't know why you're getting so heavily downvoted. The only subtle tweak I'd make to your comparison is that Apple's rules are not clearly laid out in advance. In this specific case, Apple had previously approved the same app for literally years, without a change in the relevant rule they claim to now be enforcing. That same rule Apple claims they're now in violation of is intentionally vague — it sort of hand-waves away what behaviors Apple wants to allow or disallow location tracking for, giving editors lots of leeway to turn a blind eye or not.