Musings by Grace Chng

Some weeks ago, my friends wanted to see a movie. I agreed to buy them. After all, it’s an easy task. I merely let my fingers do the surfing.

So before I left for a workout on a Saturday morning, I put my iPad in my bag. After the workout, I took it out and surfed over to gv.com.sg. Lo and behold! I saw a black rectangle. I tried again with the same result. I surfed over the shaw.com.sg and experienced similar result.

Then it occured to me. The web pages where I book the seats are in Flash and Apple doesn’t support Flash on the iPad. Do I drive home to get my computer? Call my friend to book?

In the end, the better-than-old-fashioned method worked. I booked over the phone. It’s tedious, but it works.

I told my Apple friends to get this fixed because booking cinema tix is a very basic app. My fellow Apple users told me that now they can book movie tix on the iPad. I tried today and I could. So all is well now.

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