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Uber did exactly this to a friend of mine just a couple months ago. Except they didn't even offer the 7am pickup. They just cancelled the ride 15 minutes befo
by mulmen 4y ago
Uber did exactly this to a friend of mine just a couple months ago. Except they didn't even offer the 7am pickup. They just cancelled the ride 15 minutes before the pickup.
- agumonkey 4y agoUber, once the taxi killer, soon the exact swap-in replacement :)
- gryn 4y agojust like online streaming promised to replace the tv, now more and more a drop-in replace for it in a (not so) different distribution technology.
- agumonkey 4y agoYeah, it removed the linear time constraints but it's just a TV.
- autoexec 4y agoThey want the time constraints back too. So many streaming services these days still have shows that air episodes at regular times rather than a while season at once. They also drop content regularly, offer to steam content for limited times, or only provide recent episodes. They can't wait to back to the point where they can dictate people's schedules and induce FOMO in their customers. They just have to condition us slowly into accepting it after netflix spoiled us.
- gruez 4y agoWell the main thing with taxis is that getting any ride to show up on demand is a shitshow, whereas with ubers you just have to wait 5-10 minutes (at least in my area).
- mulmen 4y agoExcept when you reserve an Uber and it never shows up, as I literally just described.
- bradgessler 4y agoIt happened to me. The Uber app assured me that a driver was on the way, then it was late, then it canceled, and not a single driver was available within the area. This was at 6a to catch an 8a flight in a Bay Area town that’s 35 min from SFO. Uber and Lyft are now exactly like cab companies, the only difference being that their “credit card machine works” Private car services work remarkably well if you’re done with Uber, Lyft, or taxis not showing up.