{"id":4100,"date":"2015-08-07T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2015-08-07T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:44:08","slug":"foxtels-engine-change-not-going-so-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/foxtels-engine-change-not-going-so-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxtel&#8217;s engine change not going so well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Francis at the SMH:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Months after launching its bug-laden $150 iQ3 video recording device, Foxtel is still facing a barrage of complaints about the product despite issuing a second major software update last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now cast your mind back to March, when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2015\/03\/rebuilding-foxtel-the-500-person-army-fighting-netflix-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Hopewell wrote a\u00a0big piece about the launch of Foxtel&#8217;s\u00a0IQ3<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Foxtel describes re-working the platform that iQ3 runs on as similar to \u201cchanging the engines of a plane mid-flight\u201d. It had to carefully execute a modernisation program that would see it completely change not only the way content was delivered, but the way Foxtel worked internally as a business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think Foxtel is learning that people build new planes on the ground for a reason.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/digital-life\/digital-life-news\/foxtel-iq3-backlash-continues-with-claims-150-product-is-a-work-in-progress-20150806-git6eb.html\">Foxtel iQ3 backlash continues with claims $150 product is a &#8216;work in progress&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Francis at the SMH: Months after launching its bug-laden $150 iQ3 video recording device, Foxtel is still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}