I've stated this before, Uber is largely a taxi service using a bunch of existing technologies and not some great tech company. The EU has now come to this conclusion too: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/eu-rules-that-uber-is-a-transport-service-not-a-digital-company.html
I hear their dispatch and routing system is amazing, continually learning and improving the more people take rides. Ultimately this is what separates the best tech companies from the rest.
Calling Uber a transport service company is like calling Google/Facebook a advertisement company because they don’t make money by selling Google search of the Facebook website but selling ads and user data.
It’s true tho brah! 😂
Yeah the sad truth is that most of the cool tech developed at Google or Facebook is for selling more ads and making Wall Street happy, not for “don’t be evil” or “connect the world”
Tech is just a means to solve difficult problems. There is no technology company per se.
Microsoft?
Amazon along with many companies are tech companies or rather "information society services" according to the article: "Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said in May that, in his opinion, Uber is not an "information society service." To be considered such would mean the part of the service which is not made by electronic means is "economically independent" of the service. In Uber's case, the drivers would need to be "economically independent". Another factor to be considered is whether Uber provides the entire offering. For example, an online retailer has a website or app as well as shipping the goods it sells. In Uber's case, this would mean it essentially employs the drivers. Uber has said that its drivers do not work for the company and are independent." I have felt that Uber should be directly employing its drivers and not treat them as independent drivers.
@SloppyJoe, clearly you have not spent much time in contractor circles. Drivers by and large do NOT want to be classified as employees, but for a vocal minority. Go and try to recruit 100 with the employee/set hours pitch and see how that works out. Spend a day inside Uber HQ, and then decide for yourself how a company like that is just “a cab company”. If anything, uber is on trajectory to become a freight company, with >1000 Uber Freight employees by next yr
Meh.
Disruptors my ass
This buzzword "disruptor" triggers me. It seems like calling oneself a "disruptor" is like a "get out of jail free" card. You can break laws, screw people over and lie, cheat and harass and the world should tolerate you because, "dis-fucking-ruption".
They are a jitney.
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it's the IQ posts and "prestigious companies" guy