One thing that was awesome about Uber, was that you could go into a city internationally and just use one app (instead of installing new apps every city or multiple apps for one city!)
The taxi game is becoming more like the Social Media game where you have multiple platforms like Fb, Twitter, Snapchat etc each doing it's own thing.
While that's great, I have 10 different apps on my phone just to deal with Social Media.
BTW I am not suggesting that Uber not be regulated or anything of the sort, but just that, if all taxi companies start having their own apps, I won't install any (from a registration, security and ease of use point of view).
>One thing that was awesome about Uber, was that you could go into a city internationally and just use one app (instead of installing new apps every city or multiple apps for one city!)
This is still true. Only a few countries/cities with very authoritarian governments have blocked Uber. The expectation of using an Uber anywhere you go is still a given and the reason I use it when traveling abroad. I've never had a problem yet.
From this comment and others, it seems to me there's a business to be made creating a unified app that all taxi services can integrate with. It seems like a large momentum to overcome, but faced with extinction via uber/lyft/etc might be the catalyst to make it happen. Priceline et al made something similar happen to the hotel industry, so it seems possible.
It's very, very hard to get taxi monopolies onboard with something like this though. That's why Lyft/Uber had to forcefully enter the markets like they've done. The market is too corrupt for something standardized like priceline to take hold.
The taxi game is becoming more like the Social Media game where you have multiple platforms like Fb, Twitter, Snapchat etc each doing it's own thing.
While that's great, I have 10 different apps on my phone just to deal with Social Media.
BTW I am not suggesting that Uber not be regulated or anything of the sort, but just that, if all taxi companies start having their own apps, I won't install any (from a registration, security and ease of use point of view).