[achow]

For non-visitors (locals), who I assume would be bulk of riders, installing of Uber or another app is same.

Once they become habituated to one app, they would be very sticky.

[ajdlinux]

Locals are probably the majority of riders, but a majority by how much? Taxis are a high volume, low margin business, and losing purely the foreign business traveller market alone to Uber has got to sting.