<story><title>Quibi Is Shutting Down</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Do you understand how the culture changed, though?&lt;p&gt;Do you realise people used to consume a lot of media on their phones vertically... but now they don&amp;#x27;t... for obvious reaons.&lt;p&gt;That can&amp;#x27;t be that hard to understand? Market changed. Previously valid opportunity vanished. They didn&amp;#x27;t do anything wrong but be around at the wrong time.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>&amp;quot;Mobile first&amp;quot; implies that there&amp;#x27;s something second. Like a webpage that&amp;#x27;s optimized for a mobile experience but is also viewable on desktop. This could have been Quibi: they made vertical videos (&amp;quot;optimized for a mobile experience&amp;quot;) but they could have also allowed users to view those videos on desktop. That would have been mobile first.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It was mobile first, so I could see how you could argue that a pandemic was bad for a platform built around mobile. Having said that, the management seems to have been crap too and it seems crazy that they weren&amp;#x27;t able to acqui-quit.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>So let me get this straight: a video streaming service fails, and they&amp;#x27;re blaming... the pandemic? I don&amp;#x27;t think there has ever been a time in history when people have had more time to sit around watching videos.&lt;p&gt;I actually wanted to give my money to Quibi, but they made it too hard to do so. I really wanted to see the new Reno 911 skits, and I didn&amp;#x27;t find them anywhere besides Quibi. I was ready to pay and I tried to find an option to watch Quibi content on my desktop, but it seemed like there wasn&amp;#x27;t any. Only mobile. Yeah, go ahead and dictate to users the exact manner in which they must interact with your product. Don&amp;#x27;t allow any alternatives. This is what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>Almost every TikTok video I see is vertical. They&amp;#x27;re going gangbusters. The culture hasn&amp;#x27;t changed. There never was room for something like Quibi. They had a shit business model which (as far as I can tell) was &amp;quot;people who ride the subway or take the bus, who will pay $8 a month for 1&amp;#x2F;3-sized episodes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Because all other viewing scenarios still exist even with the pandemic.</text></comment>
<story><title>Quibi Is Shutting Down</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Do you understand how the culture changed, though?&lt;p&gt;Do you realise people used to consume a lot of media on their phones vertically... but now they don&amp;#x27;t... for obvious reaons.&lt;p&gt;That can&amp;#x27;t be that hard to understand? Market changed. Previously valid opportunity vanished. They didn&amp;#x27;t do anything wrong but be around at the wrong time.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>&amp;quot;Mobile first&amp;quot; implies that there&amp;#x27;s something second. Like a webpage that&amp;#x27;s optimized for a mobile experience but is also viewable on desktop. This could have been Quibi: they made vertical videos (&amp;quot;optimized for a mobile experience&amp;quot;) but they could have also allowed users to view those videos on desktop. That would have been mobile first.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It was mobile first, so I could see how you could argue that a pandemic was bad for a platform built around mobile. Having said that, the management seems to have been crap too and it seems crazy that they weren&amp;#x27;t able to acqui-quit.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>So let me get this straight: a video streaming service fails, and they&amp;#x27;re blaming... the pandemic? I don&amp;#x27;t think there has ever been a time in history when people have had more time to sit around watching videos.&lt;p&gt;I actually wanted to give my money to Quibi, but they made it too hard to do so. I really wanted to see the new Reno 911 skits, and I didn&amp;#x27;t find them anywhere besides Quibi. I was ready to pay and I tried to find an option to watch Quibi content on my desktop, but it seemed like there wasn&amp;#x27;t any. Only mobile. Yeah, go ahead and dictate to users the exact manner in which they must interact with your product. Don&amp;#x27;t allow any alternatives. This is what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mritun</author><text>Wait what? The GP said they were not mobile-first, they were mobile-only and that’s true.&lt;p&gt;And No, what you say is not how any of the video services work. Pandemic or not, the largest selection of videos are 16:9.&lt;p&gt;Quibi bet the house on a mobile-only portrait videos In 10 minute chapters. You claim there was a market for that - but give no evidence.&lt;p&gt;There isn’t a broad market for that niche offering!</text></comment>