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by graycat 4218 days ago
Uber:

(1) Legal.

Nevada just outlawed Uber. More generally, Uber stands to encounter a lot of legal push-back.

(2) Competition.

In e-mail of Sat 11/22/2014 12:20 PM, CBinsights reported that Uber has "27 alternatives".

(3) Localism.

Yes, maybe in each city, something like Uber, if successful, could have a network effect that would let it have a barrier to entry: That is, since all the drivers use Uber, all the riders do; and since all the riders do, all the drivers do.

But, the taxi business is geographically local so that success by, say, Uber in Boston does next to nothing to help Uber compete in NYC, Atlanta, Chicago, SF, LA, etc. So, in each city, Uber can be attacked by local competitors.