Seven confident of ‘bug-free consumer experience’ as Paralympic app is launched
Seven West Media has launched a new app for the Paralympic Games with the network confident there will be no repeat of the defects which hampered live-streaming during the Olympics.
The chief digital officer at Seven, Clive Dickens, said that unlike the Olympics app, the Paralympic version has been built entirely in-house, which should ensure sports fans have a glitch-free experience.
Dickens admitted that Seven possibly regretted not taking similar ownership of the Olympic technology.
The comments came as Dickens acknowledged that offering a poor service – even if for only a handful of people – was “not a good outcome”.
Big call by Seven, that the app for an event with significantly less users won’t crash, and that it is due to their rebuild, not the aforementioned significant amount of users, which has been the key factor in the vast bulk of high profile digital failures?
“Just because someone says that 1% of the Internet is full of kittens, doesn’t make it true”
– Someone who doesn’t believe in every quote they read
*throws a system design book at you*
Wish the BBC had an international TV license. Their coverage of the Olympics was second to none. Made 7’s coverage look like a high school project. I still can’t get 7’s app to work.