The city has just 39 licensed cab drivers.

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    Again, the apps didn’t win because they were better, it’s because they didn’t allow competition.

    I rarely ever took cabs or other such transport because they’re universally dodgy as fuck. Apps made it convenient and accountable, thus succeeded.

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      You miss the point, taxi companies couldn’t compete with apps, they couldn’t have their own app. Because of investor lead disruption

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          Again, they did and failed because they couldn’t compete because investors paid for the likes of uber to run everyone out of business. I don’t know how more I can explain this to you, but you don’t seem to understand.

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            they couldn’t have their own app

            There was nothing stopping them and they set their own up; I’m referring to places in the UK where I know it happened, and some other countries too (SEA).

            I don’t know how more I can explain this to you, but you don’t seem to understand.

            Likely because of your explanation in the first place.

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              okay you are obviously taking this far too literally, obviously they could make an app, but the apps could not survive and exist because the competition would undersell them, paid for with investor money.

              do you see what i’m trying to get through to you yet? everyone is saying “well the apps are better!” when the reality is that the big investor backed corporations like uber pushed all the smaller taxi firms out with uncompetitive price undercutting, they didn’t die out because they didn’t have an app, they couldn’t survive with an app or without - they couldn’t make that app to make you happy because you’d still pick the 20% cheaper one anyway

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                Well yes, I read what you said as you wrote it. I can’t infer very well over text.