Uber is trying to change the rules that you have to have a license to be able to drive taxi. Thats the part you are missing here. Its not about the technology its about the legislation.<p>They dont just expand slower they get bought by american companies not the other way around that is part of the problem which is what this whole discussion is about.<p>There is nothing to back up your claim that they are more resistant to a down market. How many European social networks are left? How many European transportation companies are in the US? The list is long of american companies dominating the markets in the EU not the other way around.<p>That is the core of this discussion no matter your obvious ideological reasoning.