I like your app, BUT :
1. You have not done your homework on the market before creating it, if you want to monetize it you should have and you probably should have targeted Europe where it's legal to book a cab.
2. How do you convince your app users that it's better to use the app than to call? App is free, calling costs - may work, may not. App needs internet, calling does not. That's where marketing comes in.
Don't try to find guilty, try to find how to fix it.
Good Luck.
To be clear: I did my homework, I knew the situation when I started, and I'm not trying to find the government guilty of anything, other than natural inertia.
As I said in the post, it's perfectly legal to book a private car service in New York. So it's not like the idea is a lost cause- I just have to work with private car services. What I'm saying is that having to exclude yellow cabs is a disadvantage to me, the yellow cab drivers, and passengers. Forcing people to stand out on street corners is not very forward-thinking.
