The city has just 39 licensed cab drivers.

  • skizzles@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    You’re right even though you’re getting down voted.

    Doesn’t make Uber or Lyft any less shady of a company but so many people have no idea of the overhead it takes to “run an app”. They think that it’s just some computers talking over the Internet that they pay 100$ a month for and not the possible 100’s of thousands of dollars they pay monthly for the infrastructure to support those apps.

    It’s not an offline game that someone can just download and play, it’s a live service that is running, plus all of the data whether financial or otherwise that is being stored on multiple levels of backups not to mention the security infrastructure that needs to be maintained etc etc etc.

    That being said, I’m not defending these companies in the slightest, but for someone to just say “run an app” is a massive understatement.

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      8 months ago

      You’re right even though you’re getting down voted.

      Par for the course at LemmyWorld. Redditors brought their Redditor attitudes to LW and downvote anything they could possibly conceive as corpo sympathizing.