I think the App will be far from perfect and the govt knows that, whether because it's been made too 'loose' to placate the govt-control theorists, or because not enough people have modern enough phones.
But I think they've said that they only need around 60% take-up for it to be overall useful? Saying that might in itself have been a mistake of course, everyone might think well in that case I'll let some other poor fucker download it 
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Results from the Isle of Wight trial will be interesting, anyone know when they'll be in?
We, the public, won't get to see the publication of the test results from the Isle Of Wight trial. That is blindingly obvious.
Public Health England refused to make public the results of their 'tests' on out-of-date and expired PPE equipment when journalists and the media were asking for that information to be in the public domain. The reason? Obviously something to hide such as 'safety issues were breached but there is a chronic shortage so we'll send it out anyway'.
So I wouldn't hold your breath that the NHSX app triallers will make their findings public.
I thought most App Developers were spotty teenagers in their bedrooms, gorging on pizza in-between writing code (and having a crafty wank, probably)?
A touch cynical perhaps, but you've hit the nail on the head that they're undoubtedly at the younger end of the spectrum, so between 18 to 30 I would hazard a guess. And 18 to 30 year olds in general seem to think they know best. They display a reluctance or inability to listen, talk to, liaise with, and take on board the concerns that generally older, wiser, more experienced heads in requirements, testing, integration and rollout are raising. Mainly it's not so much to do with stubbornness, but ensuring that the software design project meets with and sticks to deadlines, and sod the quality.
I disagree. I expect there are still basic problems with the app, as described in the Register report, and other reports in the press.
Do you have a lot of experience developing software for mobile applications?
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement by lostandfound.
Testing and systems integration are where these kinds of issues will be found. Individual departments such as design, requirements etc work in their own little bubble and generally do not appreciate these 'real world' issues til the software development has moved too far along so that mistakes are difficult and costly to put right.
I think it was significant on last Sunday's Andrew Marr Show that Marr was repeatedly pressing Grant Shapps Transport Secretary for an answer to his question 'are the government considering a second TT&T app, as well as the NHSX one? ' (and getting nowhere of course in terms of a clear and concise answer from Shapps).
Also, Ch4 news mentioned midweek, that although the IOW trials had been completed a fortnight ago, there was yet no sign of the NHSX app being started to be more widely deployed across the country.
What an utter and complete shambles!
