On: Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

[ma2rten]

To your point, those phones are not the drivers personal phones, but they are provided by Uber. Uber is just storing information on their own hardware basically.

[jedberg → ma2rten]

Apparently that's not true anymore. I was talking to some Uber drivers a couple of weeks ago in Vegas and they have to provide their own smartphone.

[manibatra → jedberg]

Exactly. You can download the driver application from the Uber Website. They are distributing it as an Enterprise application(on iPhone) thereby circumventing the App Store.