Cabhappy wrote:
It is not about Uber v City cars or Edinburgh council or taxi trade.
Apps are here. Apps and technology wins every time. VFM! Apps are cheap as chips, radios are costly and outdated.
Every single problem posted above is easily sorted. If one app doesn't do it the next one will. Driver or punter can use either app at any time.
Punters just want a taxi and will use four phone apps at a time much. Press button and take the first cab.
Want to cancel and keep the app functional just press cancel and the other three drivers get instant notification.
Drivers just want a hire and have four apps on their smartphone that cost nothing.
Lost that 50p a hire job, no worries it was cancelled and I get my 50p back! Might as well take the 20% job!
Customer loyalty to radio circuits?,
tell that to the fourteen yr old who is yet to every hail a taxi! who loads up his granny's phone just like when he introduced her to mobiles.
Tell it to the driver who has a costly radio and four cheap apps giving him jobs. Run for that radio job or take the app job. ( apps use location services so all go to the nearest driver - instantly)
Account work? Apps giving the company bean counter an electronic receipt for an electronically measured fare, with a loyalty bonus from the app provider. No brainier!
Apps take all cards and /or cash to driver.
Apps are global or at least national companies to the taxi trade - high volume low cost businesses.
No need for local offices as each booking is effectively an electronic street hail.
Apps are the demise of the Radio circuit not the taxi trade. Possibly the trades salvation.
PH will probably still need a booking office and it's licence as they should not take direct bookings from customers, hence Uber application.
Taxi trade might consider that - I did mention the app ability to use location services- PH apps can monitor and restrict bookings depending on location of driver and customer!
An App can sit very well alongside a radio circuit, as proven previously, with over 400 Taxis servicing both circuit and App jobs, you say 4 cheap Apps, 20% is not cheaper than the radio circuit I'm a member off, again a previous post proves this, for less than £20 a 24 hour day my earnings have no cap or hidden extra cost, quote Skull, £100=£80 earned, £100 quid earned over 24 hours on a circuit is unheard of
CABAPPy I remember sussing out your psudenem, it seems you have a vested interest in a Cab App, carry on believing, it might be right for your area but it's not right for Edinburgh, we have it covered and we have an App that doesn't require the need to provide your cherished card details, we have chip n pin, again we are 3 years ahead of Uber, it looks like they still have a long way to go before they become a threat in Edinburgh
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We should be united in destroying them before they destroy us, CC&Skull I can't believe you have admitted supporting the Uber way 
