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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Uber may be predatory but in a lot of parts of the world, the taxi "system" is also a predatory racket. For both the drivers and the clients.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    The way taxi co's behaved, it's not to wonder that Uber took off. Acting like a modern era guild system, intentionally taking long routes to drive up the price, etc. There's no way that kind of behavior can succeed in an era where everyone has military-level accurate GPS mapping units in their pocket and greater impatience than ever with entrenched bullshit.

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