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Very interesting breakdown, makes a lot of sense... thanks for sharing!

It's the millennial user base that none of the older brokerages have been able to capture. If Robinhood holds most brokerage accounts of people born after 1980, CS will pay billions to acquire these accounts. While these accounts are small today, the idea is that total AUM will increase significantly as this user base matures and earns more $$$

Welp - after reading through these comments, seems like privacy and code upload are huge concerns.

Might be worth it for you guys to get ahead of this, and address these issues explicitly on the home page and during installation. It will lower short-term usage & install numbers, but probably won't hurt long-term retention and word of mouth sharing.

Checkout https://www.floydhub.com as a replacement for AWS!

Totally - I think we all stand on the shoulders of giants, easy to take for granted all the hard work put into OSS. I love the conscious effort to give back!

Ha, the flip phones are key. They must have algorithmically calculated that the 90s were the optimum time to live a false life.

I wonder why the machines made people live boring lives - seems like a great way to get them to wonder "is there more to life than this?"

*disclaimer: no explanatory power, just food for thought

'cogito, ergo sum'

We could very well be 'real' consciousnesses being fed artificial sensory data. While we would exist outside the simulation, our perception of objective reality might be fake.

Probably didn't have to, but chose to for any one of many reasons.

I had no idea, that's awesome (for consumers, not uber haha)

Thanks!

What low-hanging fruit do you see for AR?

Right - identifying AR as a hot area is easy, but formulating what that looks like requires vision. Money and talent will deliver the Palm Pilot (1997), vision will deliver an iPhone (2007).

My take on UX frontiers:

#1 text console #2 mouse & keyboard #3 touchscreen #4 camera & microphone

I think we're at the beginning of #4, and starting to see this in categories like messaging, social networks, dating, and e-commerce. I consider overlaying AR elements to a live camera feed to be a subset of this shift, but by no means the defining aspect of this new method to interact with machines.

That's a noble decision!

Call me a cynic, but I think you're in the minority, I doubt most people have the moral fortitude to forego $200 in free Uber credits...

UberPool and LyftLine tell you prices up front, before requesting the ride!

> No comments

Is this the startup equivalent of having a funeral where no one shows up?

Before, Apple used to be led by a product visionary. Now it's led by a supply chain expert.

I seriously doubt Apple will develop another revolutionary product with the new leadership. My prediction is that paradigm shifting AR products will come from a product-driven organization, though Apple may buy them out and scale it...

Haha that's hilarious!

True, but typically using throwaways has some weird connotations. Glad you're changing its meaning!

> Similar prices

Not true, Uber can be 40-60% cheaper. I've stopped taking public transit in the Bay Area because of Uber, I don't think I could do that with Lyft alone. Is there another competitor with cheaper pricing?

I disagree - I've had Uber and Lyft for years, and I check both to compare prices and ETA. For the past 6 months, I've noticed that Uber can be 40-60% cheaper than Lyft. I doubt former Uber users will forget what prices are like.

> What interests me is why most people don't feel "bad" when they're eating the food that I would feel sluggish from the next day.

Eating processed foods for years causes huge changes in the gut microbiome. Presence of different microorganisms means you'll process various foods differently from others.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/1...

I'm curious about what fraction of the #deleteUber participants reinstall the app within a week... I'm guessing around 60%?

I like this a lot - always give others the benefit of the doubt!

Thanks for the great find @sergeant3! Super interesting story, I'm always amazed by inner workings of the underworld of global trade. Very reminiscent of Blood Diamond (2006)...

Ha, I actually lived in one of the early iterations of the Negev. There were 15 of us in a 2 bedroom loft. 10 people shared a single room filled with bunk beds, and paid about $1k/mo each.

Shitty conditions helped form strong bonds between us - met some of my best friends in life that summer.

Why hide behind a throwaway account? Seems like a genuine, thoughtful response.

much snark.

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There's no way to prove or disprove this guys' predictions about the future. His main assertion, Uber is doomed, is not based on fact, instead it's an opinion based on publicly-available information.

To the contrary, there's huge barriers to entry in every two-sided marketplace. To retain drivers, Uber needs many passengers; and to attract passengers, they need many drivers to keep wait times low. If you don't believe me, ask Sidecar.

In an autonomous-car world, there's going to be huge initial capital costs to buy the fleet.

tldr; a doom and gloom piece from someone that's never started a startup

I think (s)he is saying that most angry commenters will display outrage online, and then unthinkingly call an Uber within the next 24hrs to go eat a burrito.