This is what Hailo did https://www.hailoapp.com/ https://www.hailoapp.com/ connected existing cab drivers with customers and skipping the cab company middle man

This is what Hailo did https://www.hailoapp.com/ https://www.hailoapp.com/ connected existing cab drivers with customers and skipping the cab company middle man, and it's a win-win for everybody (customer, cabby, hailo) but the inneficient middle-man. Uber did more than this, it also created a new pool of "people who can supply" by hiring their own drivers with less stringent quality screening than is in many localities for standard cabs, and then charging more or less the same price for this lower quality product. In the Uber case it's a win for Uber certainly, but whether it works for customers really depends on the level of quality customers expect in a local market. Established local drivers lose out.