Given the amount of uber hating world wide lately why aren't their competitors gaining traction? 'Grab'bed a cab in KL - same deal as uber but cash first - wouldn't know about it otherwise - so uber? who cares?
I don't know if that's accurate to say. Do people part of the "outrage culture" hate Uber? Sure. But I don't believe that that sentiment accurately reflects what most people think about the company. Most people just go about their day, and are at most peripherally aware that some people are pissed off at Uber and that's that.
The world is much bigger than hacker-news subculture(s) or partisan boy-cotters sending political messages.