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Syntax Error:
This is what happens when you let the British public sector 'do' apps...

UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model. Government will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turn.

"The NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app and will instead switch to the model preferred by the technology firms Apple and Google."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/uk-poised-to-abandon-coronavirus-app-in-favour-of-apple-and-google-models

"NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth."

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues

Fail > :-BROKE
tom66:
It really is an incredible failure given Google/Apple had said the NHS solution was "unworkable" 3 months ago.  Hey, perhaps listen to the experts?  Mr. Gove has told us in the past though that we are "sick of listening to the experts"...
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 18, 2020, 05:05:56 pm ---This is what happens when you let the British public sector 'do' apps...

UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model. Government will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turn.

"The NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app and will instead switch to the model preferred by the technology firms Apple and Google."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/uk-poised-to-abandon-coronavirus-app-in-favour-of-apple-and-google-models

"NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth."

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues

Fail > :-BROKE

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Probably not the fault of NHS developers.  Apple bluetooth stuff is fairly closed and Apple engineers will always have "first dibs" at making things work, so if there is a big market for something, it won't be the third party developers that get the easiest ride. 



coppice:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 18, 2020, 06:35:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 18, 2020, 05:05:56 pm ---This is what happens when you let the British public sector 'do' apps...

UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model. Government will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turn.

"The NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app and will instead switch to the model preferred by the technology firms Apple and Google."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/uk-poised-to-abandon-coronavirus-app-in-favour-of-apple-and-google-models

"NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth."

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues

Fail > :-BROKE

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Probably not the fault of NHS developers.  Apple bluetooth stuff is fairly closed and Apple engineers will always have "first dibs" at making things work, so if there is a big market for something, it won't be the third party developers that get the easiest ride.

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They were told 3 months ago why they would fail, and they proposed no cunning plan to workaround the problem they were presented with.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: tom66 on June 18, 2020, 05:13:06 pm ---Mr. Gove has told us in the past though that we are "sick of listening to the experts"...

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What he acutally said was:


--- Quote ---I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
--- End quote ---

Which is rather different to the misquote you are (hopefully) unwittingly promulgating. Given the context in which he was speaking, your version is even more adrift from reality.

He is, IMO, a shameless and disloyal toad (even for a politician) but sticking made-up stuff on him just dilutes his the real stuff.
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