It had today’s tiktok crowd. It was a huge hit. The only reason it failed is because of monetisation.
Only reason YouTube is popular. No competitor can match it in those terms.
Saying Vine was ahead of its time is like saying Digg or MySpace was ahead of its time. No it was at the precipice and just horribly failed to manage its growth and responding to competitors
just like Apple, limited models and limited parts. It will probably take till 2030 or something before it comes even close to being available “globally”.
The phones are designed to be be hard to repair. So it is obvious most people won’t be doing this themselves. Which was the dream.