It&#x27;s the same here in Lithuania, when Uber started to become popular a few years ago the taxi companies joined forces and launched their own apps (there are two main competing apps).<p>I don&#x27;t understand how US taxi companies have been so oblivious to this, given each one in major cities probably has more cabs than the whole country does here :D<p>Uber finally launched a couple of months ago, but it&#x27;s more expensive and doesn&#x27;t have as many cars.