Never in my life have I been in a situation where there wasn’t an ad and thought “Gee I wish someone would show me an ad right now”
Uber doesn’t need to be dirt cheap, it just needs to be cheaper than taxis and/or a better experience. That’s what drew people to it in the first place, taxis sucked.
> Instead, my proposal would be to put the ad units on your smartphone, in the dead time while waiting for your car and when you’re on your ride.
This is even dumber than I thought. Why am I going to look at an ad on my phone? Why am I not going to close the app and look at something else?
How could it possibly be worth anything to show an ad to somebody who is so broke they will watch ads instead of paying $10 for an Uber ride?
I think we need something like Uber pool but run as subsidized city infrastructure. Like a fleet of small bus or maybe even a full size bus without a fixed route, picking up and dropping passengers throughout the city.
I feel like there's valuable information that could help planners plan bus routes and potentially local transit train tracks but why would someone like Uber ever voluntarily share this data with planning authority?
Uber doesn’t need to be dirt cheap, it just needs to be cheaper than taxis and/or a better experience. That’s what drew people to it in the first place, taxis sucked.
> Instead, my proposal would be to put the ad units on your smartphone, in the dead time while waiting for your car and when you’re on your ride.
This is even dumber than I thought. Why am I going to look at an ad on my phone? Why am I not going to close the app and look at something else?
How could it possibly be worth anything to show an ad to somebody who is so broke they will watch ads instead of paying $10 for an Uber ride?