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Considering what's a stake for citizens and the govt, one wonders would it make sense to partner with a commodity hardware manufacturer and split the cost of the device? Use recyclable parts and encourage people to return them for a fee?
Furthermore, not everyone thinks the Home Office or the government in general is making a good faith effort to do this competently.
> The Home Office has also signed a £91m contract with French company Sopra Steria to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries Just £1.625 million per library? Does that seem a crazy amount to anyone else?
Also, local to who ? There aren't 56 points in the UK such that everyone has a local point for any reasonable definition of "local".
Considering what's a stake for citizens and the govt, one wonders would it make sense to partner with a commodity hardware manufacturer and split the cost of the device? Use recyclable parts and encourage people to return them for a fee?
It needs to be ready and distributed in less than 5 months. Furthermore, not everyone thinks the Home Office or the government in general is making a good faith effort to do this competently.
This goes double for anything involving IT or negotiating with other countries.
This seems like the sort of thing that should be rolled out to council offices, the Post Office, somewhere like that (libraries, as stated in the post).
Or (and!) airports (they already have the infrastructure!).
Let's maybe not spend 1.5 million per device though. That's something like 10-30 software dev salaries, per location. Graft?
This strikes me as an extreme form of premature optimization. This seems like the sort of thing that should be rolled out to council offices, the Post Office, somewhere like that (libraries, as stated in the post). Or (and!) airports (they already have the infrastructure!). Let's maybe not spend 1.5 million per device though. That's something like 10-30 software dev salaries, per location. Graft?
Dont blame them, but people will choose Android over it.
Any idea why Apple doesn't allow use of NFC? It's been in devices for ages, I'm surprise to hear it's not available to developers. Given Apple reviews all apps anyway, and can restrict what it's used for any way they like, I can't imagine why they wouldn't allow apps to use it.
It's really silly – but Apple keep the NFC functionality exclusively for use by Apple Pay. Whilst it is NFC, Apple have never marketed it as such. Presumably they want people to think that it's just Apple Pay 'magic'.
This strikes me as an extreme form of premature optimization. This seems like the sort of thing that should be rolled out to council offices, the Post Office, somewhere like that (libraries, as stated in the post). Or (and!) airports (they already have the infrastructure!). Let's maybe not spend 1.5 million per device though. That's something like 10-30 software dev salaries, per location. Graft?
The Home Office has also signed a £91m contract with French company Sopra Steria to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries around the UK to help those without smartphones, or without the necessary digital skills, to apply to stay in the UK.
Any idea why Apple doesn't allow use of NFC? It's been in devices for ages, I'm surprise to hear it's not available to developers. Given Apple reviews all apps anyway, and can restrict what it's used for any way they like, I can't imagine why they wouldn't allow apps to use it.
I am sure you can see the advantages?