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über vs. Uber

131 点作者 mtviewdave超过 10 年前

14 条评论

tolmasky超过 10 年前
It seems to me that this article is conflating two issues that aren&#x27;t necessarily related in a kind of strange way:<p>First, the understandable misfortune of the naming conflict, which appears to go beyond just the calling issue (for example the listed suing of the wrong party).<p>Second, it uses this as a strange segue way to criticize Uber for not having phone support. Now if you believe that Uber should have phone support that&#x27;s fine -- but its kind of unrelated to this person&#x27;s troubles. By that I mean, had she happened to not name her company uber, then this wouldn&#x27;t all of a sudden make their lack of phone support OK right? So if what you want to do is say Uber should have phone support, then this seems like a really strange primary point.<p>As an aside -- their email support has always been stellar to me, and I actually have the opposite complaint of other companies: I&#x27;d PAY to be able to get a prompt &lt; 1 hour email reply from comcast vs. the &quot;intimate interaction&quot; of wanting to break my table when I&#x27;m on the phone with a real life person from their team.
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sgustard超过 10 年前
If she got calls like &quot;I&#x27;ll pay someone $1000 for a ride to the airport right now&quot;, that might justify Uber hiring people to answer phones. But she doesn&#x27;t, she gets calls from angry harassed customers and people who don&#x27;t know they can&#x27;t schedule future rides. Guess what, Uber doesn&#x27;t want or need to hear from these people. They&#x27;ve optimized to reach people who make them profit, not who are a time and money sink. Adding a phone number is only down-side for them and they clearly know it.
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radicalbyte超过 10 年前
Lyft should sponsor her voicemail.
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jlas超过 10 年前
Interesting tidbit: it looks like the über folks acquired the <a href="http://www.uber.nyc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uber.nyc</a> domain recently. The .nyc domain actually started registering this year and the auction for uber.nyc (which I was a part of) ended at $3,200. I was surprised that Uber (the taxi company) didn&#x27;t try to get it.
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Malician超过 10 年前
The essay writer really doesn&#x27;t seem to comprehend the decision Uber is making, or the reasons behind it. It&#x27;s the model Google used to build Adwords, scalability by refusing to implement anything that requires massive call centers, not the Comcast model of trying to minimize the cost of having hundreds of thousands of employees.<p>Uber should work with this woman to take action to avoid an externality of their business model: the harm of her getting spammed by Uber customers. But that has nothing to do with implementing phone support.<p>(Maybe a number for Uber support that leads to an automated prompt, &quot;We don&#x27;t have phone support, please email us?&quot;)
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ghshephard超过 10 年前
Lyft should register a phone number for über in every city they compete with Uber in, and offer their services. It&#x27;s the sort of sharp elbows competition that Uber would certainly do.
spyder超过 10 年前
An Uber competitor should make a deal with the owner of the phone number.
drdeadringer超过 10 年前
I&#x27;ve had similar via a Google Voice phone number and people thinking they were calling some ride service; I wasn&#x27;t able to figure out if it was an airport share-shuttle, a towncar service, or what.<p>Every so often it&#x27;d ring: &quot;Hi, you&#x27;re supposed to pick me up from the airport?&quot; or similar.<p>I ended up not needing that particular Google Voice number as I had thought, so... to whoever has that phone number now, I&#x27;ve been there.
morgante超过 10 年前
I don&#x27;t understand why this is an opinion piece. What exactly is the point? That companies somehow have a moral obligation to provide phone support (you&#x27;ll find many people who disagree)?<p>If the author personally wants to phone support, he can stick to companies which provide it. Let the market decide (hint: phone support won&#x27;t win).
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JadeNB超过 10 年前
It&#x27;s funny that the article mentions that the Amazon phone number &quot;isn&#x27;t hard to find&quot;; I remember that they used to be the poster child (poster company?) for obscurantism in that respect. See, for example, <a href="http://amazoncustomerservice.blogspot.com/2007/12/8.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazoncustomerservice.blogspot.com&#x2F;2007&#x2F;12&#x2F;8.html</a>. (Actually, although I agree that it&#x27;s not hard to <i>Google</i>, a few idle clicks on the Amazon page—including to Help &gt; Contact Us—didn&#x27;t immediately turn it up there.)
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dkarapetyan超过 10 年前
I am not exactly sure what the lesson is here. It&#x27;s just another negative piece about the impersonal and cutthroat business practices of Uber. Yet in spite of all the negative press the company is valued at $40 billion and continues to grow. In the presence of alternatives like Lyft and even just regular cabs which are almost always cheaper than Uber why do people continue to use Uber?
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imaginenore超过 10 年前
The solution is simple - make a deal with Lyft and redirect the customers to them for a fee.
Dewie超过 10 年前
&gt; It conveys, she told me recently, both a European sensibility<p>What?
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aaron695超过 10 年前
&gt; Here’s a suggestion: Hire some people who will answer the phone.<p>Lucky a $40 billion company has some hack at the NYT to give them advice.<p>Pet hate: When a company specifically doesn&#x27;t want people X as customers, X thinks it&#x27;s because said company is dumb. A great example of &#x27;unconscious incompetence&#x27;.