Right?! I was so confused when I was scrolling through my app list and saw this logo, I briefly wondered if I had installed some kind of social awareness app, I just had no idea what I was looking at.
Could not agree more. There are lots of things, easily copied, that make the Uber app great, not just the ride. The question longer terms becomes who continues to get rides, and why?
IMHO, ubiquity, especially when traveling, will ultimately be the winning move.
> IMHO, ubiquity, especially when traveling, will ultimately be the winning move.
Many of Uber’s customers are price sensitive. The minority who are not price sensitive are more likely to (be able to afford frequent) travel, but I fail to see how loyalty from this segment will translate into profits over the long term, especially since their international presence in multiple but not homogenous markets is a bet that economies of scale will yield a handsome pay off, where it clearly hasn’t as they had to pull out from direct competition in China for instance.
