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Uber's Rivals Forming an International Alliance
jfruh writes: Didi Kuaidi is China's biggest native ride-sharing app, and it's using its cash hoard to build an alliance to take on global giant Uber. On the heels of a $100 million investment in Lyft, the company is also investing in Ola, India's biggest entry in the market. The deals have been described as involving sharing technology and market knowledge. "We look forward to exchanging learnings from two of the worlds largest markets and the tremendous synergies this partnership can bring, towards our commitment of building mobility for a billion Indians," Ola said about the new deal in a statement Monday.
But they're running late to the meeting
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
On the contrary. Once Uber will have win its war against the taxi industry, barriers to entry will be huge. Since everyone will have Uber installed on its phone, an independent taxi driver will have 0 chances of getting called. Everybody could clone the Uber app tomorrow. The problem is getting both the drivers and the clients to use it, not only in one market, but internationally. The tourist traveling to Paris won't use a Uber competitor he has never heard of even if it's popular locally if he has the Uber application installed. And it's not just about downloading the application. You have to create an account (which is another barrier to entry) and trust them with your credit card number. Not worth it even if you save $2 once on one ride in a foreign country.
It's like saying that there are no barriers to entry in the operating system market and everyone can create a competitor to Windows. The barrier is not the technical difficulty in writing the software, it's to get the people to use it, and depend on it.