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> Uber was similar at the start... you just fire up the app and ask for a car. That doesn't sound similar at all. The substantive difference is that when you a
by CPLX 12y ago
> Uber was similar at the start... you just fire up the app and ask for a car.
That doesn't sound similar at all. The substantive difference is that when you asked for a car, a car showed up. Unlike Magic, where you order things and pay for them and nothing happens.
- cherls 12y agoI'm sure if uber went unintentially viral the day it was launched it wouldn't have been able to deliver either. They're similar in concept and uniquenes, not how they were born. That's just a small bump in the road in the long run.
- CPLX 12y agoYes, if Uber had said they were ready to go in dozens of cities and took people's orders for cars and charged their credit cards but the cars never showed up and they had no manned number to call or email address to deal with that problem and they hadn't coded an app that tracked cars and they had no backend software to handle orders and registration they would have maybe had a different business outcome.
- shogun21 12y agoNow for a magic trick! I'm going to make this money... disappear! Behold! It's gone!!