On: Google launches Uber rival RideWith

[dylanjermiah]

How so?

[amelius → dylanjermiah]

Google: Company that is using its power established in one market to gain control of another market.

Uber: Entering a market with disregard of rules established for that market.

[dylanjermiah → amelius]

Interesting, how would you define 'unfair competition' and 'fair competition'? In a general sense.

[minthd → dylanjermiah]

amelius's answer is what the law sees as "unfair competition", altough often it's hard to sue i think(IANAL).

[frozenport → amelius]

Uber: fuck the law

[dylanjermiah → frozenport]

When the laws hurt consumers and protected the taxi cartel, I, and 2 million plus people per day welcome the destruction of such backwards laws.

[hackuser → dylanjermiah]

Is Uber any better? They are their own cartel, much more powerful than taxi drivers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771551

[dylanjermiah → hackuser]

Yes they are far superior.

At least from personal experience they've been 3x cheaper and arrived 10x faster than the taxi alternative.

Uber is not lobbying to remove competition and maintain a bad product and high prices. They're lobbying so the backwards laws can be removed. The opposite of what the taxi cartel is doing.

[amelius → dylanjermiah]

Just wait until some billion-dollar funded company decides to ignore all normal business rules, in your particular market of interest. I'm curious what your response will be then.

[dylanjermiah → amelius]

You are assuming that I would lobby local government to restrict competition and maintain my high prices and my bad product.

I would never do that, I welcome competition.