May
09
How China’s Taxi App Market Stole Google and Facebook’s Thunder
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There is a phase Westerners often use in Asia: “Same same but different.”
It’s a clich with a simple meaning: While on the surface something may seem very familiar to the Western eye, look a little deeper and it is actually very different. There is no better example of “same same but different” right now than the taxi app wars being fought out in both the U.S. and China.
I remember discovering the taxi app Uber for the first time on a 2010 trip to San Francisco. It had only been launched a few months previously, but my friend Justin explained how it was already taking the city by storm.
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