‘Hate buffering, don’t care regarding money, make decent apps’; Criticism once morest ‘Jio Cinema’
New Delhi: Criticism once morest ‘Jio Cinema’, an app that streams the Qatar World Cup live. Users complain that they cannot view the match properly due to buffering. The spectators came to complain when the first match of the World Cup between Qatar and Iraq was in progress.
Mukesh Ambani, the owner of the app, is mainly criticized on social media.
‘It doesn’t matter if you have money. Make a courtesy app. People should be able to watch the game without interruption. It’s like trying to watch video on older 2G networks. Don’t tell locals how bad our DD channel was,’ wrote a profile named Jayaram Janardhanan on Facebook.
Anivar Anand’s profile responded, ‘Ambani even took a contract to ruin the Jio World Cup for Indians’.
World’s ninth richest man, Mukesh Ambani, can’t do a smooth #WorldCup streaming with his atrocious #JioCinema app, just as world’s richest man, @elonmusk can’t run a microblogging app ????♂️
— N.S. Madhavan (@NSMlive) November 20, 2022
Writer N.S. Madhavan also responded to the issue. “Mukesh Ambani, one of the richest men in the world, cannot run World Cup streaming smoothly with his atrocious Jio app.
As if Elon Musk, another richest man in the world, can’t run a microblogging app,’ N.S. Madhavan’s tweet.
Meanwhile, while the match was going on, Jio Cinemas tweeted that they are taking immediate action to resolve the buffering issue.
Seeing the opportunities in the OTT market, Viacom is telecasting the 18 Qatar World Cup for free through the Jio Cinema app. This is the first time that free streaming is allowed in the country.
Our team hard at work to solve some of your buffering issues????????pic.twitter.com/mjxLV5cgmD
— JioCinema (@JioCinema) November 20, 2022
With free streaming, all telecom customers can watch the matches without any restrictions. Such services are designed mainly to target the market. It is estimated that regarding Rs. 300 crores will be received as advertisement revenue.
