{"id":24651,"date":"2020-09-25T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24651"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:41:46","slug":"damned-if-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24651","title":{"rendered":"Damned If They Do…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VirusMy feelings on this government, the Tories in general, and Brexit are well known. But I don\u2019t go so far as to blame them for everything.<\/strong> Only the things they do wrong.<\/p>\n

The new Test & Trace app is now available<\/a>. I downloaded it with no trouble, and it runs with no problems that I can see on my  HTC U11 (come on, HTC, I want a new flagship) from 2017. All you have to do is enter the first part of your postcode and allow a couple of permissions and it is set up. However, the way the app works means that it has to be installed on relatively new phones which have the necessary Bluetooth features on them. Note that I said the necessary<\/strong> Bluetooth features – not Bluetooth per se<\/em>. The iPhone 6, for example, was released in 2015, and Apple stopped supporting it and earlier models this year. So in other words it is obsolete, and no one in their right mind should automatically expect any new app to run on that phone.<\/p>\n

The Test & Trace app doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Matt Hancock has gone on record as saying an \u2018upgrade\u2019 maybe needed to access the app<\/a>. Rightly or wrongly he\u2019s going to get slated for this. It\u2019s his \u2018let them eat cake\u2019 moment. But how is it his problem? It\u2019s like complaining that you can\u2019t play a C60 cassette in a CD player, or a VHS cassette in a DVD machine (though it\u2019s worth pointing out people did<\/strong> complain when those two things were current issues).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying the app is perfect, or that it works properly – I don\u2019t know, and time will tell – but the vultures are out in force over it simply because they can\u2019t download it on to two tin cans joined by a piece of string. It only works on iOS 13.5 and later – and that counts for 70% of the iPhone-owning public. It will only run on Android Marshmallow or later – again, from 2015 – and that covers over 80% of Android users. It doesn\u2019t run for the tiny minority using Windows, Blackberry, or anything else. It doesn\u2019t run on phones which aren\u2019t \u2018smart\u2019 (think \u2018original Nokia\u2019). And you can\u2019t use it if you don\u2019t have a phone at all – and believe me, there will undoubtedly be some<\/strong> people who are in that bracket who are complaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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