What have they done?

Thanks for the response, as it happens my wife's tablet is a Tab A and I have just had a play with it and I acknowledge the map upadating is slow when using the booking web site as compared to my Samsung S7 tablet but it is not unusable.  It just requires a bit more patience. I was using it over my home WiFi network which gives a good download speed or round about 70Mbs

peedee

It seems with this booking system you need a fast Internet and later type operating system that you use to get it to work

It does not appear to matter too much about what operating system you are using but it does appear to require a good processor speeds (in excess of 2Ghz) and plenty of RAM to obtain speedy results.

peedee

Good processor speeds and plenty of RAM are not things seen that often on portable devices such as tablets and phones. This hobby of ours involves touring which means vast majority use portable devices. To design a system that requires a PC or at least a high power laptop just shows the lack of understanding of the business the club is in. 

I always travel with a small 14 inch screen HP laptop which has an i3 processor and takes up only a little more room than my Samsung  tablet and is a lot easier to use. The problem is that people have been seduced into using phones and tablets thinking they can do everything with ease. Whilst that is true of some things it's not universal.Many won't agree with me but that is my view.

David

It works adequately on an iPad 8th generation and iphone SE 3rd generation. Neither of which are top end devices. I had no problem using it on tour, as long as the 4G or WiFi was above about 5mbs. 

'Adequately ' isn't good enough, when the old system was 'well above adequate'. The old app is still available, so simple to use but only shows availability up to May so that will soon be gone. I've certainly no intention of switching to Apple products or investing in an all singing all dancing laptop regardless of size. For the cost of such items I could stay on top commercial sites for several years. I shall continue to use Search4sites to find sites whether they be club, commercial or CL/CS until this fiasco is sorted and use my phone to book. 

What the Club really needs to do is to produce a decent App to run on phones and tablets. The new one is no where near as good as the old one.

The web site works fine on higher end devices it just needs the errors to be rectified.

peedee

As I mentioned earlier somewhere, the advance of software design pulls the hardware requirements along and the advance in hardware capability pulls the software design along to take advantage of it.

It's a continual cycle with older apps falling by the wayside and older hardware  becoming redundant for many applications.

you only have to look at TomTom and how quickly older devices can't cope with more and more detailed mapping and extra information 'we all want' like photos of campsites and other destinations...

how many old PCs get binned as they can't manages the next 'upgrade'?

tis life with technology, I'm afraid...we all want more...more speed, better resolution, more videos, more photos, more storage and so it goes on.

I do use a recent iPhone 13 so I have no prob...I might get my old SE or 4s out for a bit of fun😀

*The main reason Apple do it-abandon older models that is is to push folk to buying new. System architecture changes & morphs forward at an alarming speed & with each upgrade more innovation is built in.Todays IT is not what it was 10/20yrs ago not even 5yrs ago. It’s controlled only by the mental innovation of IT techs. 
*PS-Apple updates & their abandoning of them for more revenue.

The advance in technology is inevitable world wide. A business selling its product that an average customer cannot buy easily and at their convenience makes bad business sense. I don’t think those sat around the big table at head office should put themselves forward to be the next Apprentice any time soon! 🙄