[disgruntledphd2]

> Now, had taxis come together and built an app to improve ux, consumer cost,increase consumer base and reduce fraud the I'll give you thar Uber would have had to compete

This existed, it was called Hailo and they operated a (mostly) franchise based model. Uber drove them out of business by breaking the laws and spending more than they earned.

[_8j50]

Never heard of them till today. I remember frantically searchit for something like this because finding a yellow cab to come pick me up when stranded caused me a lot of misery.

[diogenescynic]

Hailo wasn’t even used in very many cities. This is a bad argument. It never had the scale of Uber/Lyft. Not even comparable.

[disgruntledphd2]

It was incredibly successful in the UK and Ireland. They explicitly pulled out of the US because it cost too much money for marketing.

I'm just bitter that a decent service got wiped out by a competitor setting VC money on fire.

[diogenescynic]

If it was a decent service then it’d still be around. The market decided it wasn’t as useful as Uber.