[m_ke]

There's no reason why we can't have a coop based version of a WeChat like super app with all of these services on a single shared platform.

Most people don't get on planes that often so the value of global scale is not something that would prevent them from getting disrupted in a place like NYC. I'd be willing to pay a large premium for gig work if I knew that 95% of it went to the worker and they weren't being exploited by a bunch of clowns in SV.

[basch]

I'd argue that standardization at the protocol level benefits almost everyone more than the current paradigms. Any app works with any taxi network.

I want to use Lyft as my client, great. I land in a city, and I can ping drivers working for any pool, co-op, or team.

WeChat just replaced the AppStore/OS. If each service is its own entity inside WeChat, youve just nested the problem one level down. The client browser should be completely divorced from the rest of the network. There should be an IMAP/HTTP level hailing protocol. You want gmail but I want outlook, great we can still talk to each other.