> So its easy to copy, is regularly copied, but none of them made any market-share gains? Maybe it's not so easy to copy? In Uber's case there are a lot of suc

> So its easy to copy, is regularly copied, but none of them made any market-share gains? Maybe it's not so easy to copy? In Uber's case there are a lot of successful copies of the app based taxi service, some of which have pushed them out of markets completely. e.g. Lyft, DidiChuxing, Grab, Ola, etc... Plus many local cab companies now have apps that mirror Uber's functionality. In cities that I know well I find those companies are better, quicker and cheaper than Uber, which I now mainly use as a backup or in places that I don't know.