Actually I'm fairly certain that is not the thought process at all at lyft. There are many poor minimum wage workers and students with smartphones in the USA.

Actually I'm fairly certain that is not the thought process at all at lyft. There are many poor minimum wage workers and students with smartphones in the USA. It would be an incredible effort for little usage in a world where the smart phone is becoming the default phone world wide. It's the same reasoning why they don't have have a windows phone app either. The amount of work it would be to create a J2ME app that works on many dumbphone models would probably be 10x, not to mention the difficulty in finding people who would even work in such a dead end platform.