About the hotly debated "Apple playing DDT car is more expensive than Android" on the Internet is actually inaccurate, Apple is more expensive than Android because those users see the price is the price after the discount.

Drop's official microblogging released the company's chief technology officer, Mr. Zhang Bo, gave the possible reasons for the fluctuation of the "estimated price":

First of all, the estimated price changes according to the positioning, road conditions, mileage, and length of time. The road conditions change the fastest, and the DDT estimate is "refreshed in real time by milliseconds". Along with the cell phone to enter the interface time is different, the price may also be different; Secondly, the amount of the estimated price displayed by the dropshipping = estimated price - coupon deduction amount. Some network sunshine ignored the coupon credit; in addition, the network environment is complex, may lead to different positioning, resulting in different final car prices.

Zhang Bo said, as long as you open the drop at the same time, repeated a few more tries, you can find that the statement (questioning the price inconsistency) is wrong. And under the microblogging V's revelation, some netizens left comments to share their own experience, which the reporter noted was basically the same as the official response of DDT.

"This is not the phenomenon of 'killing familiarization', but 'killing people who are not sensitive to price'." Big data experts, director of the University of Electronic Science and Technology's Big Data Research Center, professor Zhou Tao said that different consumers see different prices, people often hear this as soon as they think it is price discrimination. In fact, you can think of it the other way around, some consumers see the original price, some consumers may see the price after coupons, cashback coupons.

Extended information:

For the matter of the different prices of the Apple and Android to play the drop, the money reporter did

The Qian Daily reporter conducted a number of tests in Hangzhou, respectively, selected two Apple phones and an Android phone, three drop accounts, at the same time, starting point and destination for testing. At 2:15 p.m., the Intercontinental Hotel in Hangzhou as a starting point, each selected Zhejiang Daily Newspaper as the end point, test two Apple phones, the results show that carpooling, express, Youxiang three services are exactly the same price, in turn, 20.2 yuan, 21.5 yuan and 25.4 yuan.

Looking at the comparison test between Android and Apple phones, at 8:07 p.m., from the Intercontinental Hotel in Hangzhou to the Zhejiang Daily News, the prices for carpooling, express and premium services on Apple phones were RMB 18.3, RMB 20.6 and RMB 24.3 respectively, while the prices for Android phones were RMB 17.9, RMB 20.1 and RMB 23.8.

From the results of the two sets of randomized tests, the estimated prices for carpooling, express buses as well as Youxiang did differ, but not by more than 0.5 yuan, when the same point of departure and destination were entered at the same time.

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