@Aki look at the figure of the amount spent on iPhone apps what percentage is it of the total. Sorry to say this but imekuwa vendetta sasa. Go to Rory Cellan-Jones blog, the BBC tech correspondent check the archives for the site that took much of the UK Gov expenditure, there are no apples there nor apps. V On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Even you now Aki your iPhone vendetta imezidi. Move on. Technology comes and goes and for now, the iPhone is definitely with us tupende tusipende.
If you focus too much on trees you fail to see the forest.
There can be tremendous value in government investing in applications on the iPhone or indeed any other platform.
Tell me you'd still complain if someone created this for Kenya http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diy_democracy_civic_participation_for_t...
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Philip :-))))) dont be i-Upset. BBC wrote the article, not me. May I quote some paragraphs from the BBC article :
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development costs ranged from £10,000 - £40,000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It seems many Government bodies have given in to the temptation to spend money on fashionable gimmicks at a time when they are meant to be cutting back on self-indulgent wastes of money", he told BBC News. "It is ridiculous not only that they are commissioning these apps but that some of them are supposedly secret on grounds of national security. "Someone who is faced with losing their home because of high tax bills, or whose life is being ruined by crime isn't going to get any reassurance from knowing there's an app for that," he added
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By the end of May there were over 53,000 downloads of the Jobcentre Plus app, although critics have asked why someone who can afford both an iPhone and the expensive running costs would need a Jobcentre Plus app
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Aki,
Does this upset you? Would it have mattered if the Government had spent the money on Windows Phone 7 or Android Apps?
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