Trends: Uber vs. Lyft
Why do we dislike Uber? Lets go through the links.<p>1) Stuff about the CEO's personal life.<p>2) CEO wants to automate business processes. Those of us in tech would <i>never</i> consider replacing humans with machines, right?<p>3) Trying to compete for workers. (Didn't we hate Apple/Google for agreeing not to do this?)<p>4) We love Peter Thiel and he hates it.<p>5-7) A few Uber drivers are crazy (Uber is helping the cops). Note that if most of these incidents happened in a taxi, the cops would have little info unless the passenger remembered a license #.<p>8) Standard french advertising in France.<p>9) Standard PR.<p>10) Exec discusses hiring journalists to do journalism to journalists. You know, digging up stuff about their personal life, kind of like (1) on this list.<p>Are these the real justifications? Or are we simply engaging in internet mobbing because we get to feel self righteous, and the CEO is kind of a jerk?<p>Disclaimer: I've used Uber maybe 3-4x in my life and was happy every time. Lyft rejected my CC. I use autowale.in whenever I can't flag one off the street.