2016 – 2019retired
Android Nougat
“It split your screen, tamed your notifications, and never asked for thanks”
“Every format, any theater, one ticket at a time — gone far too soon and far too messily.”
Sinemia was a subscription service for discounted movie-ticket plans, letting members watch films in every format imaginable — 2D, 3D, IMAX, 4DX, DBOX, ScreenX — at any theater, on any date, at any showtime. It was also the only international movie-ticket subscription service operating in the UK, Canada, Turkey, and Australia alongside the US, a reach its rivals could not match.
The dream curdled: the company's US bankruptcy filing disclosed a pending FTC investigation, and a class-action lawsuit was filed over its fees. Subscribers endured account terminations without apparent cause, demands for photo ID and social security numbers, and app errors many suspected were intentional — and curiously fixable for customers who complained loudly on Twitter. Sinemia ceased US operations on April 26,
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“It split your screen, tamed your notifications, and never asked for thanks”
“It dreamed big, but the rest of us never quite put our phones in it.”
“It linked everything to everything, except people to people. Rest well, +1.”