Comment by ipaddr
Any car company. Uber.
All tech companies offering free services.
Any car company. Uber.
All tech companies offering free services.
All the American cars (Ford, Chevrolet, GM...) are much cheaper in Europe than eg. German cars from their trifecta (and other Europe-made high end vehicles from eg Sweden, Italy or UK), and on par with mid-priced vehicles from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, Mazda...
Obviously, some US brands do not compete on price, but other than maybe Jeep and Tesla, those have a small market penetration.
Is a “cheaper” service going to come along and upend Google or Facebook?
I’m not saying this to insult the technical capabilities of Uber. But it doesn’t have the economics that most tech companies have - high fixed costs and very low marginal costs. Uber has high marginal costs saving a little on inference isn’t going to make a difference.