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DAalseth said:

Doctor’s Disease. That’s what we called it years ago. Just because the person was a medical Doctor they would think they knew best about everything, from running a business to fixing their radio. We had Doctors absolutely blow up at us because we wouldn’t do something the way they thought it should be done, whether it violated laws or not. Whether it might literally kill them or not. 

So in this case these Doctors think they know better than professional programmers how  a system should be programmed to run and better than professional data security people how private data should be handled. Plus as the article pointed out their own complaints show that they don’t really know how the Apple/Google system actually works.  Typical Doctor’s Disease. If they think they know how to do it better they need to get off their collective @$$es and do it. Nothing is forcing them to use the Apple/Google APIs. 

Other than the fact that they don’t know how. 

This is not the doctors (the two I know weren't going to run the NHSX app on their phones either).

NHSX is a branch of the government that is overseeing the digital transformation of the Health Service. It is not actually part of the health service. The actual work will be carried out by anonymous consultancies who will bus in staff, salesmen and contractors with the aim of earning as much as they can for as long as possible. 

There will be no doctors involved in any decision regarding system implementation because that would make sense. So let's not blame the doctors.

The 'X' in NHSX stands for 'experience', and that should tell you all you need to know.

Oh, the whining …

And I see the users in the UK trial are complaining about the battery drain, as predicted by just about everybody outside NHSX. 

Next step for the UK: a humiliating climb down smothered in a pack of lies designed to make it look as though this was the plan all along. 

macgui said:

elijahg said:

The terms of service don't override the law, no longer getting something you've paid for is fraud, pushing people to pay again is extortion. Trying to claim it's ok by using a clause in the ToS doesn't really cut it, a ToS is a contract which has to be fair to both parties otherwise a clause can be nullified in court.

What the fuck are are you talking about. You clearly don't know. You've strung a bunch of your opinions and assumptions together without any basis in fact.

Depends on where you are.

In the UK, you cannot sign away your rights under law. That's why the police can prosecute cases of domestic abuse, even if the injured party doesn't want to press charges.

StrangeDays said:

This crapware company is owned by Will.i.am. Explains it. They've been plagued with financial issues going back long before COVID.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932055/wink-smart-home-problems-iamplus-william-black-eyed-peas

Their packaging expressly promises no subscriptions:



We've seen winning class action suits for far less. I don't think they will survive this.

I believe that's what the Americans like to call 'the smoking gun'.

This product was sold to provide a function; removing that function later has class action written all over it.

In the UK, what is written in the EULA is overridden by the law anyway. 

What they're hoping for is that the number of people who they will eventually have to restore the service to, is less than the number of people who just sigh and pay up.

fumi said:

Vellum is the most over-hyped style-over-substance app I've ever seen in the publishing industry. And at $200? Laughable. It's truly been created for the Apple fan.
Scrivener for Mac or Windows absolutely annihilates it. Scrivener does everything Vellum can do as well as being a full WP. And it costs a fraction of Vellum.

Well, if buying cheap is your main driver (which it obviously is because you mentioned it twice) then it’s not for you.