A German brought up the cost factor of the Irish Corona App....roughly 850,000 Euro, while the German warning App cost around 20-million Euro. The suggestion? Maybe the Germans overpaid.
I surveyed the issue, and came to this observation.
The expectation of the German government (back in May/June) is that the warning App had to 'work' (we aren't talking about 88-percent effective....it's more like 100-percent). Added to that....all this privacy expectation crap that Germans dwell upon day and night (just sharing publicly your favorite soda or beer is sacred information)....had to be observed and protected.
The Germans turned to the folks who deliver, and don't go into six-month or twelve-month or 10-year delays (like those BER airport folks).
Not a lot is said over the Irish folks and their App. It apparently does function as advertised, and they apparently didn't get all hyped-up over privacy-data concerns. It wouldn't shock me if this was developed three years ago as a dating App, and they just modified a couple of things to get the result.
So, turning to the big deal.....the EU said four weeks ago that they want to take all of these different warning Apps that exist around Europe, and have them effectively work as one single 'unit'. This means that an Irish guy visiting Frankfurt could tangle up with a German gal over the weekend, who had Covid-19 and get the friendly 'red-warning' ('you got potential Covid'), once he arrived back in Dublin.
How many different Apps exist? There's a minimum of a dozen in Europe, and it might go up to twenty-five. Around the globe? There's probably a minimum of sixty. Even Ghana has developed their own App.
I noticed in Poland....they run two warning Apps. One is regular street coverage, and the other is Kwarantanna domowa....which is supposed to be for the home-quarantine crowd....to ensure they do stay home.
As for the timeline for the EU to get this unified App to work? Unknown. It wouldn't shock me if they were still testing and working out the bugs in the spring of 2022. It would have been easier to just tell everyone to dump their App, and let the German App be the sole App of the whole EU.
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