I think so, I can use a smartphone app / web page to order a taxi now. There's no surge pricing, the cost is predictable as well as the drivers income, they are not expensive and they are reliable, at least in cities, in Australia.
Maybe I've hit middle age, but it sure looks like evangelising uber is a desire to carve some bohemian fashion for ones self by simply making a materialistic change to a brand of taxi, it's only skin deep really, fashion.
Either that or there was a genuine gap in the market.. again any sort of taxi company with OK service would have succeeded.
Either that or there was a genuine gap in the market.. again any sort of taxi company with OK service would have succeeded.
This is how I see it. Uber is not particularly revolutionary, but the existing taxi system in many areas was so regressive and unpleasant to use that it didn't take much more than a decent app to upstage them.
i also use a taxi app / web page here in portland, oregon ( taxi magic ...which looks like its now called "curb" ) ..it just connects me to two local taxi companies. they haven't failed me yet.
Maybe I've hit middle age, but it sure looks like evangelising uber is a desire to carve some bohemian fashion for ones self by simply making a materialistic change to a brand of taxi, it's only skin deep really, fashion.
Either that or there was a genuine gap in the market.. again any sort of taxi company with OK service would have succeeded.