In the US the government-taxicab relationship tends to be corrupt and customer-taxicab relationship tends to be acrimonious, so something like Uber was good news.<p>In much of Western Europe there&#x27;s less corruption on one end and less acrimony on the other end, so in Spain white-label apps like myTaxi or Cabify proliferated (whereas Uber only offers food delivery), in Denmark and Sweden each taxicab operation runs its own app, which they prominently advertise.<p>In Eastern Europe the concept of unlicensed unmarked &quot;gipsy taxes&quot; has been around for so long, that there is genuine pressure from voters for more regulation, licensing and safety standards, so any newfangled company that promises to seat you in an unmarked vehicle with dubious safety history will be viewed through negative lens of decades of yet another gipsy cab operator out to make a quick buck.