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themadhippy:
--- Quote ---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.
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Typical uk goverbent,they always forget tiny little details,like talking to apple.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53105642
cdev:
BBC: "However, the BBC has discovered that one of the main reasons the initiative is running behind schedule is that developers are having problems using Bluetooth as a means to estimate distance."
Yup, thats what the inventors of BTLE were saying too.. that it was literally impossible to use it how they claimed they were going to.
China must have been bullshitting people.
--- Quote from: themadhippy on June 19, 2020, 04:26:14 pm ---
--- Quote ---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.
--- End quote ---
Typical uk goverbent,they always forget tiny little details,like talking to apple.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53105642
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PlainName:
--- Quote ---Yup, thats what the inventors of BTLE were saying too.. that it was literally impossible to use it how they claimed they were going to.
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That must be why the Proximity Profile spec is really hard to find, then.
Oh, wait... PXP at bluetooth.org
Syntax Error:
For anyone playing at home, the BBC offers a timeline into the failure of the UK's Covid tracking app development.
Coronavirus: What went wrong with the UK's contact tracing app? By Rory Cellan-Jones
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53114251
Meanwhile on Github, contributors to the NHSX covid iOS app are wondering why the new wonder "hybrid" app is not in a public repo? https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/33
Back in April there was a workable api platform and developers who would have built a tracking app for free. Instead months later and millions of pounds spent, all that has been achieved is yet another British public sector I.T. project failure :palm:
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 20, 2020, 04:13:17 pm ---For anyone playing at home, the BBC offers a timeline into the failure of the UK's Covid tracking app development.
Coronavirus: What went wrong with the UK's contact tracing app? By Rory Cellan-Jones
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53114251
Meanwhile on Github, contributors to the NHSX covid iOS app are wondering why the new wonder "hybrid" app is not in a public repo? https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/33
Back in April there was a workable api platform and developers who would have built a tracking app for free. Instead months later and millions of pounds spent, all that has been achieved is yet another British public sector I.T. project failure :palm:
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When ideology comes into the picture, pragmatism often evaporates.
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