Big tech is built on predatory pricing
What Uber is doing here should absolutely not be allowed.  Whenever you go to a city where Uber is in it's first year of operations the prices are insanely low.  This also happens when Uber launches a new product like Pool.  This enables them to crowd out any competition and then raise prices once they've got control of the market.<p>I have a friend in SF who takes Uber to work every day. It's about 3.5 miles.  I assumed he was dropping boatloads of money but he told me it's $2.50 each way!  The IRS estimates vehicles costs alone at about $0.55 a mile and that's not including actual pay to the driver and Ubers cut.  Offering a service at this price is not only unfair to for-profit competitors but messes with public transport as well.  It's using VC money to crowd out the market.<p>Unlike with cloud services (the other example) it's much harder for competition to Uber to reappear once it's disappeared.  There's a fixed supply of willing drivers and big network effects at play.