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Meanwhile, the local taxi company I use the most in Stockholm has their own iPhone app which is basically a button for "I want a taxi at my current location now
by henrikschroder 16y ago
Meanwhile, the local taxi company I use the most in Stockholm has their own iPhone app which is basically a button for "I want a taxi at my current location now".
I don't understand, how can you make money for this as an external service? Aren't there local taxi companies in the SF or NYC that could do the same in an instant?
- pchristensen 16y agoBut who wants an app from every company? I'd rather just have the fastest taxi, regardless of who is driving it.
- henrikschroder 16y agoBut Uber doesn't seem to provide that? You can't get any taxi with them, you get a car from their fleet. So they operate exactly like my preferred taxi company? Or have I misunderstood their service?
- pchristensen 16y agoGood point. I think the appeal is that they can expand their fleet by signing more companies to use Uber than any given taxi company could expand its fleet.
- henrikschroder 16y agoWell, my local taxi company has had a phone-based booking system forever, they've had web-based booking for 5-10 years, and from that position, making an iPhone app is very cheap, it looks like they just got an iPhone consultancy agency to make it, and I'm pretty sure they didn't pay 10 million for it. :-) I don't know exactly how taxi companies work in various US cities, but for any company that already has web-booking, getting an iPhone app is trivially cheap, and I don't see how Uber is going to be able to counter that, funding or no funding?