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Title: Germany’s contact tracing app using Apple API launches; somehow cost $22.7M Post by: HCK on June 21, 2020, 04:05:19 pm Germany’s contact tracing app using Apple API launches; somehow cost $22.7M
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/06/Germanys-contact-tracing-app.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000)</div> <p>Yesterday’s report that Germany’s contact tracing app would launch today (https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/15/german-contact-tracing-app/) was correct. The country originally planning an app that captured location data and used a centralized database before privacy objections saw it <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/27/apple-google-contact-tracing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">make a U-turn[/url] and instead use the Apple/Google API.</p> <p>The most staggering part of today’s confirmation, however, is that developing the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coronavirus[/url] app – where the API does the heavy lifting, and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/04/apple-covid-19-exposure-applications/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple provided sample code[/url] to do much of the rest – somehow cost the government €20M ($22.7M) …</p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/16/germanys-contact-tracing-app/#more-651456" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/16/germanys-contact-tracing-app/">Germany’s contact tracing app using Apple API launches; somehow cost $22.7M[/url] appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com">9to5Mac[/url].</p><div class="feedflare"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=nJc8wDh5qkw:wMfHah88CKg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=nJc8wDh5qkw:wMfHah88CKg:D7DqB2pKExk) </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/nJc8wDh5qkw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: Germany’s contact tracing app using Apple API launches; somehow cost $22.7M (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/nJc8wDh5qkw/) |