INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Looks like things haven&t gone completely smoothly with Quibi‘s launch.
The issue appears to have been resolved, but the Quibi customer
support account tweeted this afternoon that &some users may be experiencing problems with the Quibi app,& only to add an hour later that
&Users should once again be able to use the Quibi app normally
Thank you for your patience.&
It not clear how widespread the outage was, but according to The Verge, one staffer saw an error screen and
was unable to browse the app, while another was unable to create an account
The app seems to be working normally as I write this shortly after 4pm Eastern.
If nothing else, it a reminder that reliably delivering
streaming video is hard, even for a startup that raised $1.75 billion
Heck, even Disney experienced widespread streaming issues when it launched Disney+ in November
(It all worked out fine.)
Users should once again be able to use the @Quibi app normally
Thank you for your patience.
— Quibi Cares (@quibicares) April 6, 2020
A quick catch-up for those of you still wondering what Quibi even
is: It a short-form video service founded by Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and led by CEO Meg Whitman (previously CEO of Hewlett
Packard Enterprise and eBay).
The app islaunching with nearly 50 shows today, all of them created specifically for mobile, with episodes
that are less than 10 minutes long
After a 90-day free trial, it&ll cost you $4.99 with ads or $7.99 per month without ads.
Quibi launches its mobile streaming service in the
middle of the quarantine era
