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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’

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Re: Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’

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Post by conanbatt »

buboard wrote: post #56
conanbatt wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only HN's can think their opinion is worth more than millions of people spending and earning money in more than 50 countries.

Uber has little traction in Europe for example. It seems to be a huge deal in the US though https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/05/10/ubers-rocky...

Uber has significant traction in Europe, thats why they got banned from several places, and Taxi cabs drivers have attacked people and set cars and places on fire.

Nevertheless globally it triumphed.

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Post by lokedhs »

mynegation wrote: post #43
praptak wrote: post #32

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They do add some value. They don't add any value above a taxi company/cooperative with a decent app.

At least one bit of the value is that you do not have to install new app or two in every city you go to. I wish something like this existed for parking payments.

I'd be happy if I was even allowed to install the parking application in the first place. When I went back to Sweden last time to visit my family, I rented a car but when I wanted to park I wasn't able to install the application since my account is not Swedish.

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Post by amalter »

stedaniels wrote: post #68
hangonhn wrote: post #41

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They've been doing this for years now. Significant savings that way too.

TIL! I always thought they just pretended they were ridesharing because you were sharing with the driver who just happened to be going the way you asked them to. Goes off to see just how prevalent real ridesharing is on the platforms

Only anecdotal, but Uber Pool is by far the most popular product among my cohort in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Usually you ride with at least one other person, and it’s not unusual to have 3-4 passengers if it’s a third row suv.

I enjoy shitting on Uber also, but there is a grain of genuine innovation in the mountain of crap.

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Post by celim307 »

weare138 wrote: post #48
celim307 wrote: post #19

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Idk what taxi's you used but outside of a handful of cities, getting a taxi was terrible. Even when I lived in Chicago I had to call the dispatch, who would give me a 10-15 minute wide estimate of their arrival time, and often idled at a random spot in my building and I would have to walk back and forth across the complex to find it. Uber and Lyft are insanely better than that.

I lived in Chicago for over 15 years and never had a problem getting a taxi. Plus it had the added bonus of up-front flat rates, a professional driver that knew what the hell they were doing, proper commercial driver insurance and not having to let some app harvest all my personal information and track me where ever I went.

Counter point. I've been 'scammed' by a taxi multiple times over living there 6 years, usually around new years or any big event. Things like circling the block to run up the fair, missing exits and feigning ignorance, and of course their card machine is ALWAYS down?

Imagine being a tourist in a new medium to small city and having to deal with the local taxi company. Sure you're gonna get an ok experience at some, even most, but a good portion are going to suck ass and often have no recourse. With uber/lyft I have a GPS-backed history of my route and metrics down to wait time to use as evidence and I've been refunded with no question.

Imagine trying to do that with a taxi driver, yelling at each other in a cab at 2 am, calling the taxi company who will tell u to fuck off, or calling the city and filing a case that is pending for 4 months.

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Post by rdlecler1 »

cjarrett wrote: post #75
rdlecler1 wrote: post #62

Last time I used Uber? this week. Last time I used coworking space? This week. Last time I used Oracle? ...

Last time you used a service backed by a service run likely by oracle? Multitudes of times this week.

And most of those are legacy companies that are in their sunset.
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