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Tangent, but I wish someone would disrupt the movie ticket industry. Fandango's mobile app is one of the worst apps that I've ever seen: it's very unresponsive and full of advertisements, spams and interstitials I do not care about. And yet it's the only way to buy tickets in my area.

I mean I'm already using the app to spend money, why not offer me a good experience instead of bombarding me with crappy ads?

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I assume it's because they want to avoid paying fees to Apple no?

I don't see how that transfers. Paying fees to Apple also might not apply with Fandango, as it delivers a service fulfilled physically and not digitally. I would suspect the ad bombing in the Fandango app is due to razor thin margins in the movie tickets purchasing business.

Hmm good point.

If one was to take on Fandango would you have to take over their contract with the movie theaters or could I be a competitor to Fandango?

They definitely have direct contracts that are not easily replicable.

I mean, they do have a website which is fine...ish.

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