[dogma1138]

It’s not that other video services don’t have a good mobile experience already.

People just care much more about content than the experience unless it’s really really terrible and even then in the case of shows and movies content comes first.

15 min episodes with lackluster content that are essentially only good for your short commute run isn’t and likely never will be what people are looking for.

I honestly didn’t even knew Quibi existed until this year or maybe late 2019 when they had a huge marketing push for their exclusive shows and those shows sucked. You got a disjointed experience akin to a hallmark movie split into short episodes.

We already tried that with “webisodes” in the past and they didn’t survive once streaming became a thing because they couldn’t match the quality of the content of Netflix and co.

Quibi failed because people don’t mind pausing and the few that do probably would rather watch a 20-30min episode of their favorite sitcoms during commute than 1 or 2 episodes of some Quibi show.

The format especially the portrait mode content was also annoying as fuck, this isn’t instagram.

[jere]

> I honestly didn’t even knew Quibi existed until this year or maybe late 2019

Uhh..so? It didn't even launch until April 2020.

[dogma1138]

I knew about it because the TVrage feed spammed quite a bit new shows I guess around April this year and all of them were Quibi, I watched a few (torrent) and said meh.

It kinda reminded me of the webisodes that were popping out everywhere in the mid 2000’s to early 2010’s. They poured a lot of money into recognizable but still affordable actors but the content was just boring.

[Jtsummers]

> I honestly didn’t even knew Quibi existed until this year or maybe late 2019 when they had a huge marketing push for their exclusive shows and those shows sucked.

You didn't know of it earlier because it was founded in 2018 with a product launch in 2020.