seanj

I’m surprised at some of the tin foil hat brigade comments on an Apple site, I normally associate flat-earthers etc with Android...

entropys said:

Sounds very good. All it needs to be perfect would be decent pricing and at least one USB-A port.

Surprised you didn’t ask for a RS-232 port too 

Punultimate said:

It's interesting how you have such in depth knowledge around the guilt in a case that was only recently filed and feel so assured that Apple is at fault.  The music industry is a spider web of licensing, cross licensing, where rights and frequently sold and acquired, regardless of who originally wrote the music.  Sounds like you just don't seem to be a fan of Apple yourself from your tone.

Sounds like you’re one of these people who believe in “my country right or wrong”.

Its perfectly possible to be an Apple fan while also acknowledging that the part of Apple that does the legal vetting of submissions to iTunes is too lax: the same is true for other music stores like Amazon, etc. Because of the cost in checking rights they simply trust anyone who claims to have the right to sell a particular song.
Personally I’m tired of reporting pirate material to them. Often it’s blatant, being made from a vinyl recording and encoded as a 128kbit mp3 before being sold as an aac.
The problem for Apple/Amazon/etc the legal cost in confirming the ownership of song recording is prohibitively expensive compared to likely revenue. If they were to check properly, these music stores would only stock huge selling established artists like The Beatles, Springsteen, Taylor Swift, etc.

redraider11 said:

 They can’t do privacy better. That’s the point. The fearful public will elect for this thinking, ignorantly, that the government has their best interest at heart and then when a new party or people are in charge that wish to expand its use for more nefarious motives, they will. This virus is the perfect opening all governments have been waiting for to infringe in our rights. Not that the British or other Europeans really ever had rights, but you get the point. 

It’s kind of the same thing when we passed the Patriot Act after 9/11. Everyone was fearful and wanted something done. All that got us was spying on Americans under Bush and expanded on under Obama. If people think that won’t happen here, then they’re fools. 

You have a very dismissive and superior attitude towards your fellow man, believing that a fearful public will unthinkingly install. Yes not everyone has a university education, yes there are some that have jobes that aren't intellectually challenging, but generally people are more critical in their thinking then they are given credit for. A fact that repeatedly seems to suprise politicians who take the public for idiots.
But you are showing your ignorance as this app needs to be installed by the user. However the computer viruses don't need permission to be installed, they install themselves. Thats why macOS has never had any viruses. It has however had malware that tricks the user into installing it, so at best this app could be described as malware.

I suspect the reason why this App is using a centralised approach is so that the NHS can identify and track where local outbreaks are occuring in different parts of the UK. Which is very understandable for the health authorities in tracking the virus. However if this app does impact on battery life I can foresee people removing it from their phones, just like any other power-hungry app. (Viruses don't let you install them.)

Clearly you also know nothing about history. The Magna Carta was a landmark in the establishment of the rights of the citizen versus the state, not just in Britian but internationally - your Declaration of Independence drew upon it. But the recognition of an individual's rights haven't stopped there. Britain and most European countries have the United Nationas Declaration of Human Rights embedded in their law, allowing the individual to use the judiciary to strike down any laws passed by the legislature and enforced by the executive that infringe on these basic rights.
True in the UK we don't have "the right" to wander around with assault rifles and enough ammunition to start a small war...
But then we've only ever had 1 school shooting. Ever.

lewchenko said:

The U.K. is an embarrassment so far in its response to Covid-19.  

Add this to the list. Every decision whether it was access to tests/lockdown/borders/protective equipment etc ... too little and very late. 

We needed that app weeks ago here in the U.K. in combination with a viable and frequent test service. 

Our economy is ruined , & thousands of unnecessary deaths which could have been prevented. The general public here still can’t get access to tests unless carted off to hospital. It’s a disgrace. 

There is a reason countries like New Zealand did so well. 

All I can say is whilst the U.K. is terrible it looks like there are plenty of countries making equally bad decisions. 

Thats not what the majority of the British public think with the British Government having record approval ratings on top if its huge election win in December.
Its interesting that a Kings College, London and Ipsos Mori poll showed that that those attacking the governement and/or not oberserving social-distancing laws were either Labour Party supporters or Remoaners - which is applicable to you?

The UK is ahead of Belgium, Spain, Italy, and France in minimising the number of deaths per million population. This is despite the fact that the UK has the highest population density in Europe, which makes social-distancing more difficult and infection spread easier.

Whereas New Zeland has one of the lowest population densities on the planet...