I tried to allude to that (and likely did so poorly). However, that's one of the very reasons I may just hold off a while on subscribing until there's a more substantial library. Disney has a lot riding on this service, did a big presentation, has a big upcoming release date, etc., so I question the wisdom in holding it back like that. They're going to have additional content to add as contracts with other providers expire, and they could have included the bulk of the Disney library while then adding in the Fox content that was acquired earlier this year.
I was talking with a friend last week who is a financial adviser, and we were discussing Disney and
Disney+. He's not a big Disney guy (I don't think they've even been down to Disney yet with their kids). However, he knew all about Disney+ (it sounded like he either watched the presentation a couple months ago or read quite a bit about it), and he was talking about it in terms of stocks and value. Particularly, he was talking about corporate value going forward and how big owning content is for these companies in terms of future viability, profit, and value. So investors know how important value is and Disney+ is very important to Wall Street.
I would think Disney would want this to be a metaphorical drop the mic situation. A "we're going to leave this right here for you," and release it with the level of content that would just blow people away. I'm just surprised, and it really does encourage some to just wait to sign up. While I'm interested in the Mandalorian and some of the new content, I'm perfectly content waiting until all the episodes are there and subscribing a couple months in when there's more content and just watching the show then - I don't need to watch anything the night/week it is released. Since there aren't that many movies that we've been waiting to show the kids from the old library, we might as well keep finding titles on Hulu and Netflix for the kids to watch, and wait. Additionally, if there's only a handful of things to watch, for many, the service may get stale awfully quickly - which is more of a worry, in my opinion.
Lastly, in writing all of this, I can't help but wonder if Disney is not looking for huge subscriber numbers right out of the gate, out of fears of technical problems. I don't really believe this is the case, since even with smaller subscriber numbers, any technical issues will be heavily reported, but it almost feels like if they slowly build subscribers, they can test their systems better this way??? It just seems antithetical to the behavior of those at the top of the corporate ladder, however.
(though they need to spray just a wee bit more over by the geyser at big thunder)
