Originally Posted by
ridinginjeans
UBER isn’t innovative. Strava is. UBER won’t survive in its current form. The experience has gone downhill for the past three years.
The Strava experience is very good, and not expensive.
Meh, it doesn't matter how "innovative" you think they are if their business model can't stand on its own, instead falling back on guilting people to use it.
What the Strava defense force doesn't want to admit is that a lot of the value in Strava diminishes as people leave the platform. Heat-maps? Segment leaderboards? Social network for athletes? All dependent on lots of usage and lots of their users data, which Strava has never paid anyone while turning around and attempting to monetize for years. So who should be paying whom?
Again, they purposely made it easy to get data into their system because that's the foundation upon which any possible business model they've yet to successfully land relies.