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I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
That’s like 4 SV devs working a year. And just in salaries, not including payroll taxes, office space, admins, QAs, etc. 850k sounds eminently reasonable for such an undertaking in such a short period of time.
The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it. EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it. EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
Meanwhile, Play Store says India's Covid tracing app was downloaded by more than 100 million+ people.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogy...
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That’s like 4 SV devs working a year. And just in salaries, not including payroll taxes, office space, admins, QAs, etc. 850k sounds eminently reasonable for such an undertaking in such a short period of time.
That's what I'm saying, it's the 11M that's not reasonable...
The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it. EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
The company is part of the development. Afaik many apps are open source. "Donating it" means offloading the support and profit from Linux Foundations status.
Nearform is involved in integrating the backend into the countries health system... so they offload the app and just do the work that gets paid well. ?
Isn't this just a meaningless ad? The company is part of the development. Afaik many apps are open source. "Donating it" means offloading the support and profit from Linux Foundations status. Nearform is involved in integrating the backend into the countries health system... so they offload the app and just do the work that gets paid well. ?
The app has been open sourced by the Irish Government, not Nearform who were the developers. The copyright is owned by the HSE (the Irish public health authority).
The app being open source does benefit Nearform, though, as they can sell their services customising the app for other governments.
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It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it. EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
That’s a little misleading though because the percentage of people who install the country’s contact tracing app is driven much more by the quality of the people than the quality of the app. So this app might be garbage, I don’t think this statistic says much one way or the other.
That sounds strange. Explain more?
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I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
I don’t know specifics about the UK version, but most of those costs likely weren’t on the app proper. They did run a field test, for example. For comparison, the German version cost millions, too. That included multi-language support, setting up help lines, security evaluation, load testing millions of concurrent users and, IIRC, connecting to quite a few of different hospital computer systems. Add in time pressure,…
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That’s a little misleading though because the percentage of people who install the country’s contact tracing app is driven much more by the quality of the people than the quality of the app. So this app might be garbage, I don’t think this statistic says much one way or the other.
> the percentage of people who install the country’s contact tracing app is driven much more by the quality of the people That sounds strange. Explain more?