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The brand is already tarnished. I know many people that use lyft over Uber for this reason alone.
by marcrosoft 8y ago
The brand is already tarnished. I know many people that use lyft over Uber for this reason alone.
- asafira 8y agoThis might be the silicon valley bubble here though.
- biesnecker 8y agoTotally. I use Lyft wherever I can but I can virtually always use Uber whereas Lyft is spotty.
- lettergram 8y agoWhere do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber? I travel regularly and it is very rare not to have Lyft available. Virtually any city with >250k has both from my experience, although that could just be where I travel, I don't know.
- Xeago 8y agoI've yet to find Lyft in Europe but there's a lot of cities there with Uber available.
- nickwegner 8y agoKansas City, MO has both, but wait times have been much higher for Lyft when compared to Uber. At least that’s been my experience. I only try to use Lyft.
- V-2 8y ago> Where do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber? Everywhere other than the US and Canada?
- dagw 8y agoWhere do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber? Lyft is US/Canada only, while Uber is much more global.
- biesnecker 8y agoLate response, but yeah, mostly Europe. Asia for a while, but now Uber is mostly gone there too.
- ardy42 8y ago> This might be the silicon valley bubble here though. I'm well outside of SV, use Lyft occasionally, and never use Uber out of principle.
- kbenson 8y agoIt might be (as long as we expand that definition to cover tech workers or tech industry aware people in other areas as well). I live an hour North of SF, and even there, if I mention I don't like to use Uber out of principle because of their past behavior and misdeeds, the question I invariably get is "Oh, like what? I haven't heard anything." Whatever Uber did to paper over what news of their misdeeds reached general cultural consciousness (if any...) seems to have worked for the most part. That's a shame, since I truly believe there should be much harsher repercussions for their blatant disregard of the law over an extended period and the pain and problems it caused to many. I suspect if the market was working efficiently, Uber would have a lot more problems and be in a much worse position than they are (efficient markets assume good information, and if people don't know what Uber's done, they can't make an informed decision).
- gotocake 8y agoI live quite a few states away, and in fact Uber has a terrible reputation here too.
- Gpetrium 8y agoYour sample size is a little limited to conclude that the brand is tarnished, especially when we look at the size of IPO between Lyft and Uber. Although your perspective might mean a potential trend that the business should be taking into account.