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matwood 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to earn a billion dollars

Uber also forced taxi services to have apps and always accept CCs.

inigyou 3 months ago [–]

Competition is good. Which is why having only two taxi apps is bad.

matwood 3 months ago | [–]

I mean I agree...What I was pointing out is that the existing taxi market did nothing to improve until Uber and then Lyft came along. It was completely broken, and would have remained that way.

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