Uber has an edge here. Decades of regulatory coddling made taxi industry suck so hard that any alternative that sucks less is welcome. I don't care about their

Uber has an edge here. Decades of regulatory coddling made taxi industry suck so hard that any alternative that sucks less is welcome. I don't care about their business model, but if I need to get point A -> point B, and they can do it with the least inconvenience for me - they get my business. But not all industries have such amounts of accumulated suckage.