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Anecdata of course: I've been a frequent and global user of Uber for far too long, but in the last six months I've unintentionally stopped using the app complet
by agentcoops 4y ago
Anecdata of course: I've been a frequent and global user of Uber for far too long, but in the last six months I've unintentionally stopped using the app completely both locally and while traveling. At least in Europe, the Uber experience, for drivers and riders, has become egregious and competition from aggregators of local taxi infrastructure can finally offer a well-designed app at an almost identical price point with much faster pickup/better service -- and, of course, better comply with local employment regulations. Compound that with orders of magnitude smaller/cheaper engineering teams and I suspect we might be at a tipping point away from ride-sharing towards (aggregated) taxis; I will be watching FreeNow closely in the EU and would love to see their growth/financials.
- rightbyte 4y agoTaxi companies has the benefit of scale in a way that Uber drivers' don't. I don't think not maintaining the vehicle fleet "at scale" will work out in the long run for Uber's drivers and thus Uber when they run out of lusers running at a loss.