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Translating their app would allow Uber to encroach on such communities. That is likely already in progress.
by wiseleo 12y ago
Translating their app would allow Uber to encroach on such communities. That is likely already in progress.
- yeukhon 12y agoI will just make my raw observation and prediction that the reach into certain community for certain use case is likely to have little success. For example, if you want to travel between Flushing and Chinatown, or between Brooklyn and Chinatown, or between Queens and Chinatown, there are specific "bus station" for people to wait at. For car service it's also a single phone call and you can get a quote within half a minute. There is usually a single number you dial and you can get a quote on the ETA so you can wait at home and go on the shuttle van when the time comes. The reason technology hasn't beaten this old school system is because of the low cost to run and the low entry to barrier for both the business owners and users. Typing can be quit slow and ineffective and sometimes Internet access is just not available. It's basically a community lock-in. So a Uber-like clone will have to break this "monopoly practice" not by just translating the app, but actually knows how the community works.
- jonknee 12y agoUber is translated into a ton of languages already, I see that it gets updated very frequently and often times the only changes are various localizations. Considering you can put your destination address in the app, it should be a huge improvement to anyone who doesn't know the language (or with disabilities).