"Uber just sprung on us that they are no longer offering the service of "deliveries". Now they offer the service of "integrated orders and deliveries". And only that.
That's right: if you want Uber to deliver your food, you also have to let them have your online ordering business.
And they gave us a luxurious six week deadline on this.
So Uber managed to get a monopoly in one industry -- restaurant food delivery -- and is leveraging that monopoly to eliminate the competition in a completely different industry -- online food ordering."
Looks like they don't like hackernews either, they are redirecting it to http://imgur.com/32R3qLv now. If you open it up separately you can get to the article.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] thread"Uber just sprung on us that they are no longer offering the service of "deliveries". Now they offer the service of "integrated orders and deliveries". And only that.
That's right: if you want Uber to deliver your food, you also have to let them have your online ordering business.
And they gave us a luxurious six week deadline on this.
So Uber managed to get a monopoly in one industry -- restaurant food delivery -- and is leveraging that monopoly to eliminate the competition in a completely different industry -- online food ordering."