I see a lot of these comments whenever Uber or other taxi based app's law violation are highlighted. In my country, taxis have always been a cumbersome and pai

I see a lot of these comments whenever Uber or other taxi based app's law violation are highlighted. In my country, taxis have always been a cumbersome and painful existences. Trying to catch an early morning international flight meant - either trusting an unreliable operator to send you a taxi or paying way above the market rates to reach the airport on time. What the apps have achieved is this: for me, as a customer, hailing a taxi is as simple as pressing a button. for a driver, they allow customer acquisitions to be super easy and not depend on unreliable operators. I am really grateful to the apps for this and happily pay the apps the middleman/operator fee. But, the same apps routinely break laws in various countries and that too knowingly. It doesn't matter if the law makes sense to the multi-national company or not. They are supposed to follow the rule of the land. If every other MNC thought itself to be above the law of the land, I can't imagine what the world might look like. Like say for example - no Chrome or other browsers because MS could (did?) think that the EU anti-competition law was nonsense. They could continue shipping Windows with IE and asking people to outrage against the nonsense law which made it difficult for people (without a technical know how) to get a browser and get on the internet.