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You might pay double for a while until you got round to finding and signing up for a new app.

And in many places, Uber is a monopoly - it would take months for other apps to launch and scale.

Almost every I know has both Uber and Lyft, will check both and pick whichever is cheapest at the moment

Lyft doesn't exist outside of the US.

But other services do, or will.