Excellent commentary on all the other reasons Uber succeeded. One other comment I'd have is that taxi services are spectacular in some places. Get a black cab in London or Tokyo and you're overwhelmingly likely to experience a better ride than Uber can offer. But the list of similar cities is extremely short; it just happens that a lot of these doomsayers live in them.

One also doubts that the guy writing this article ever needed to take a cab anywhere.