Recently our Computer Repair geek went to watch a movie at BBC in Maroochydore. The weather on the Sunshine Coast was poor, and it had been raining all weekend, so we decided that a movie was a good idea. Now getting to the Sunshine Plaza was difficult enough with parking difficult to find...
Patiently we finally made it to the cinema, only to be confronted by long queues, and hundreds of people. We thought we'd be smart and book our tickets online via our iPhone. We thought that by sitting down, logging onto the ticket booking system and getting our tickets, the pain of sitting in queue for hours would be all over in a matter of minutes. We thought we'd be smart. We were wrong...
The BBC hasn't invested in new age technology, they have no App Store application for iPhone's older than 3.2 and there is no iPhone friendly web application. Booking the tickets had failed through the normal website not just once by TWICE...
The BBC invests serious amounts of money into their normal web systems that they have forgotten about the emerging markets. A market that is more mobile has access to the internet from anywhere....
To cut a long story short.. we had to join the queue.... :( But technology should have made our lives more simple and less frustrating... somehow the BBC has made it more difficult and more frustrating..
Patiently we finally made it to the cinema, only to be confronted by long queues, and hundreds of people. We thought we'd be smart and book our tickets online via our iPhone. We thought that by sitting down, logging onto the ticket booking system and getting our tickets, the pain of sitting in queue for hours would be all over in a matter of minutes. We thought we'd be smart. We were wrong...
The BBC hasn't invested in new age technology, they have no App Store application for iPhone's older than 3.2 and there is no iPhone friendly web application. Booking the tickets had failed through the normal website not just once by TWICE...
The BBC invests serious amounts of money into their normal web systems that they have forgotten about the emerging markets. A market that is more mobile has access to the internet from anywhere....
To cut a long story short.. we had to join the queue.... :( But technology should have made our lives more simple and less frustrating... somehow the BBC has made it more difficult and more frustrating..
So BBC call on our geeks to help with iPhone web development sometime.. :)
We’d be more than eager to help.
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