[toomuchtodo]

Quibble: having multiple phones is not gaming companies; they're independent contractors, remember? You work for whoever provides the best compensation at that moment.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[hawkice]

It's possible he meant game in a deeper, street-philosophy sense, in that the drivers are playing the game and Uber is playing the fool.

[toomuchtodo]

My understanding was that Uber had/has a system called "Hell" that could uniquely identify Lyft drivers based on fiticious rider requests Uber would send, and then use that data to target those Lyft drivers to drive exclusively for Uber.

Uber most definitely wasn't playing the fool.

[hawkice]

I'm not saying that's what's happening, I'm just saying there's an idiomatic use of "playing these companies" that doesn't involve betraying a trust.

[toomuchtodo]

Fair analysis. Definitely hard to obtain meaning from text alone at times.