In my city, Uber has very much > shown that the old model for running a taxi service was horrendously outdated and customer-unfriendly Prior to Uber, you had

In my city, Uber has very much > shown that the old model for running a taxi service was horrendously outdated and customer-unfriendly Prior to Uber, you had to pick a taxi company, call them, wait between twenty minutes and the heat death of the universe for the taxi to show up, and then maybe have the driver claim that his POS machine is broken and please pay cash. After Uber showed up, suddenly the largest taxi service came out with an app where you could order a cab, watch it approach in real time, and pay through the app.