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OK, in this vein, why oh why did Lyft and Uber remove their apple watch apps? I just need an app that's a single "take me home now" button so I don't have to wo

OK, in this vein, why oh why did Lyft and Uber remove their apple watch apps? I just need an app that's a single "take me home now" button so I don't have to worry about my phone battery dying when I'm out and about. Pretty please?

atlasunshrugged 2y ago
Yes! This is one of the critical things I need from an on the go device
free_energy_min 2y ago
if your watch can call https://www.uber.com/au/en/ride/call-to-ride/ https://www.uber.com/au/en/ride/call-to-ride/ https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/make-phone-calls-apdc38d7a95e/watchos https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/make-phone-calls-apdc3...
- hrrsn 2y ago
  Amazing, they've reinvented a taxi.
  - throwaway55110 2y ago
    A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.
    - misiek08 2y ago
      On time? Here in europe (Germany, Poland, CZ) you get ETA 7 minutes, but real time is 10-12 minutes every time. It's going down and only the cost agreement is now better than taxi. Money, as always, is the only matter working here.
      - xeromal 2y ago
        I don't know anything about germany but here in the US except for a few select cities, taxi service was garbage and user hostile. Uber improved it in every way. Uber gives me confidence that almost everywhere in the US I can get a predictable ride.
      - mikestew 2y ago
        You’re complaining about a five minute difference between estimated and actual time of arrival? U. S. taxis would have you standing in the rain for an hour past promised pickup, and maybe they just don’t show at all. There are good reasons that Uber, et al., were practically overnight successes.
      - yoz-y 2y ago
        Same in France. The initial ETA is always a lie. What’s even worse is the ETA they give you before booking the ride. Still better than taxi in general , but that’s a low bar.
      - throwaway55110 2y ago
        Thanks for perfectly illustrating the impact of Uber - now you complain about few minutes! I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x. Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.
btown 2y ago
Completely speculating, but when an App Store review process can drive business decisions (we have to push the launch of X back because we're having trouble lobbying Apple to approve our changes), it's reasonable to see a second app as doubling the likelihood that you end up in that situation. And even if it weren't for the review processes, would every launch be at the mercy of reporters saying "this isn't supported on my watch, so..."? It's also possible that each company simply lost all the people who knew the watchOS APIs, and the incremental revenue generated wasn't worth hiring for that role again, or trying to convince someone else at the company to add it to their scope. Perhaps, as well, there was an expectation that Apple would be the one encouraging Uber to maintain and build the app, and give them favorable treatment on the App Store review processes as a way to sweeten that deal... and then when the larger relationships started to become more acrimonious, any ideas here fell by the wayside.
- saagarjha 2y ago
  Almost certainly usage that doesn't justify the investment
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atlasunshrugged 2y ago

Yes! This is one of the critical things I need from an on the go device

free_energy_min 2y ago

if your watch can call https://www.uber.com/au/en/ride/call-to-ride/ https://www.uber.com/au/en/ride/call-to-ride/ https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/make-phone-calls-apdc38d7a95e/watchos https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/make-phone-calls-apdc3...

hrrsn 2y ago
Amazing, they've reinvented a taxi.
- throwaway55110 2y ago
  A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.
  - misiek08 2y ago
    On time? Here in europe (Germany, Poland, CZ) you get ETA 7 minutes, but real time is 10-12 minutes every time. It's going down and only the cost agreement is now better than taxi. Money, as always, is the only matter working here.
    - xeromal 2y ago
      I don't know anything about germany but here in the US except for a few select cities, taxi service was garbage and user hostile. Uber improved it in every way. Uber gives me confidence that almost everywhere in the US I can get a predictable ride.
    - mikestew 2y ago
      You’re complaining about a five minute difference between estimated and actual time of arrival? U. S. taxis would have you standing in the rain for an hour past promised pickup, and maybe they just don’t show at all. There are good reasons that Uber, et al., were practically overnight successes.
    - yoz-y 2y ago
      Same in France. The initial ETA is always a lie. What’s even worse is the ETA they give you before booking the ride. Still better than taxi in general , but that’s a low bar.
    - throwaway55110 2y ago
      Thanks for perfectly illustrating the impact of Uber - now you complain about few minutes! I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x. Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.

btown 2y ago

Completely speculating, but when an App Store review process can drive business decisions (we have to push the launch of X back because we're having trouble lobbying Apple to approve our changes), it's reasonable to see a second app as doubling the likelihood that you end up in that situation. And even if it weren't for the review processes, would every launch be at the mercy of reporters saying "this isn't supported on my watch, so..."? It's also possible that each company simply lost all the people who knew the watchOS APIs, and the incremental revenue generated wasn't worth hiring for that role again, or trying to convince someone else at the company to add it to their scope. Perhaps, as well, there was an expectation that Apple would be the one encouraging Uber to maintain and build the app, and give them favorable treatment on the App Store review processes as a way to sweeten that deal... and then when the larger relationships started to become more acrimonious, any ideas here fell by the wayside.

saagarjha 2y ago
Almost certainly usage that doesn't justify the investment

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