More on the NHS app-ocalypse. Google / Apple have produced an API not app. In simple terms that means an out of the box engine which needs a body and wheels. I would almost certainly have gone for the Google / Apple API to begin with. The problem described below sounds like a bug which should be fixable, however there are architectural shortcomings which will be much more challenging.
NHS intensifies talks with Apple as Isle of Wight trial for contact-tracing app stutters
Soon after the app's release on the Isle of Wight, users complained it was not working on certain phones or flooding them with notifications
The NHS has intensified talks with Apple over its contact tracing app as its Isle of Wight trial is beset by problems, raising fears a back-up version may be needed.
Health service bosses are coming under pressure to switch over to a version of digital contact-tracing which uses technology provided by Google and Apple specifically for their phones, increasingly seen as an international standard.
The Telegraph understands that talks between Apple engineers and the NHS developers have ratcheted up, suggesting the health service was taking the option more seriously.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/08/nhs-intensifies-talks-apple-isle-wight-trial-contact-tracing/
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