The Rise of the taxi Apps Versus conventional taxi’s

A media outlet from Kitwe reported that The pirate taxi drivers were complaining of loss of business owing to the taxi app operators who were offering cheaper services. The R&B singer Usher Raymonds at some B.E.T honors awards when asked How he managed to Remain Relevant in the music industry said,” Those who don’t EVOLVE, easily DISSOLVE “. Once upon a time, the post office was the only source of sending and receiving money outside the banking systems and they enjoyed the dominance over a long period. Then came ZOONA which was like a Eureka moment people would easily send and receive monies via agents at locations near them; All that the post office did was to do an advert that, do not transact from Undesignated locations you can easily be mugged. Zoona equally enjoyed its short dominance in the money sending and receiving market. Then boom Mobile service provided adopted From Kenya The SMS pin secured money transfers; which was a brainchild of Vodacom and Safaricom, where subscribers just needed a phone number and no need of carrying some form of ID to transact. This killed Zoona as one could use this service to pay for services and keep money in the mobile wallet for convenience. Rather than the taxi drivers crying foul and hoping the taxi app companies would be closed they should innovate and create an app platform that would be convenient otherwise crying foul will not help in the long run. Globally ride-sharing apps are on the rise and conventional taxis have continued to criticize them but they still exist and offer them immense competition.

The Rise of the taxi Apps Versus conventional taxi’s