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Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by sirclueless »

panarky wrote: post #109
srtjstjsj wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If he disagrees with the President, why should he (and why should anyone want him to) stop speaking into the President's ear?

Collaborating with the administration legitimizes and normalizes their policies of hate. This does far more damage than any marginal benefit from "speaking into the president's ear". I'm sure it's good for Uber to be on Trump's team, but don't pretend you're "standing up for what's right".

Ahh yes, the advisory board with other fringe right-wingers such as Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and Sheryl Sandberg. How could he possibly be so two-faced as to throw his hat in with these marginal characters?

Re: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by pj_mukh »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #3

Dan Primack summarised this well; Uber failed on messaging: "Uber has done a lot of questionable things over the years, but its actions this past weekend vis-a-vis Trump's immigration ban weren't among them. An actual timeline from Saturday, which may differ from what you saw on social media: • 4:20pm ET: CEO Travis Kalanick sent email to employees. It stopped short of explicitly opposing the ban, but did say: (1) Th…

Can this app store download bump be judged independently of the fact that Lyft just expanded to a bunch of cities[1]? Lyft being available in all these cities would obviously give it a large bump.

Not sure why techcrunch doesn't mention that this may have NOTHING to do with the #deleteuber campaign.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/lyft-expands-to-40-new-u-s...

Re: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by rosser »

Kalium wrote: post #118
rosser wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the pricing is the extent of people's concerns, or even the majority. I'm not a fan of Kalanick, personally, but I was prepared to have been wrong about him when I saw his Facebook post about taking care of the drivers who were stranded by this idiocy. Then, I saw they were taking fares to JFK during the taxi strike — effectively breaking it. To my eyes, and those of many others, that is an ugly repudia…

Instead of a gesture, Uber chose to allow immigrants from the countries in question to keep earning money. Uber made it easy for protesters to get around the police blockade of the AirTrain. There were no ideal options on the table. Joining the strike would have meant hurting a sizable number of immigrants and hurting the protests.

Did you miss that the strike was only against picking up fares at the airport?

Re: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by Consultant32452 »

the-dude wrote: post #107
srtjstjsj wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The strike was nonsense anyway. Why were drivers striking -- punishing the innocent residents and visitors (and protestors/allies!) of New York (a sanctuary city!), in an attempt to punish Donald Trump?

Virtue signalling

All of the people involved in the protests from top to bottom are just virtue signaling. The CIA went into Syria in 2006 and started funding and training opposition forces leading to the current civil war. The Obama administration is responsible for a quarter million deaths in Syria alone. And that doesn't include the use of cluster bombs, an act considered a war crime in most of the civilized world, on several of the countries listed in this "ban." And yet now that a relative hand full of people can't travel here... that's the real monstrous act. Don't get me wrong, I think the "ban" is pants on head stupid, but the people protesting don't give two shits about Syrians or the citizens of any of the other 6 countries we're bombing.

Re: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by alphonsegaston »

dllthomas wrote: post #115
alphonsegaston wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Breaking the strike was picking up someone at JFK during the strike. Uber and Lyft both picked up riders during the strike. It's not complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/2...

Workers choosing not to work is a strike. Infrastructure owners choosing not to let workers work is something else.

Since Uber actively works against their drivers' collective organization and intentionally atomizes their labor force, a coordinated action for all drivers is only feasible in the context of Uber suspending service. If individual drivers chose not to service JFK, that was their decision and we can respect them for it. There were, however, Uber drivers breaking the strike and that reflects on Uber accordingly.

Re: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

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Post by tn13 »

Strikes should not be a feature of free societies. What do we achieve by striking and making it hard for normal Americans to go abut their lives ? Trump and his officials probably laugh at you from their taxpayer funded jets.

An Uber or Lyft driver is poor than me and I do not want him to earn less because I want to engage in virtue signaling. I would suggest putting up donation boxes and raising more money to donate it to ACLU and other organizations instead of disrupting normal life.

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Post by mjolk »

maverick_iceman wrote: post #99
nichochar wrote: post #4

It's funny to me how Lyft positions itself like the poor little underdog that deeply cares about humans. People are so susceptible to marketing it's crazy. They provide the exact same service, and Lyft cloned most of uber's features once uber had achieved the unbelievable mindshift of changing people's behavior. Whatever people think, in a few years if Lyft is popular enough, guess what: they too will become the "big…

Lol, a $5.5B company not "big evil capitalistic enterprise" for you?

So that I understand, if you were at the head of a $1bb company, would it by default become "evil"? Further, do you feel that capitalism is intrinsically bad?

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Post by pfarnsworth »

didibus wrote: post #103
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #3

Dan Primack summarised this well; Uber failed on messaging: "Uber has done a lot of questionable things over the years, but its actions this past weekend vis-a-vis Trump's immigration ban weren't among them. An actual timeline from Saturday, which may differ from what you saw on social media: • 4:20pm ET: CEO Travis Kalanick sent email to employees. It stopped short of explicitly opposing the ban, but did say: (1) Th…

If we stop thinking of it as deleting Uber and start thinking of it as install lyft, I think it makes more sense. Lyft took a very public opposition stance and committed to give 1 000 000$ to support an advocacy group. And this isn't necessarily a stance against Trump, but just this particular executive order.

Peter Thiel is a direct investor in Lyft. And Thiel donated $1M to Trump and was part of his transition party.
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