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This is because they rightly recognized the backlash they would face if they did build it into the OS. Even if everything proceeded nominally from there, it wou
by asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
This is because they rightly recognized the backlash they would face if they did build it into the OS. Even if everything proceeded nominally from there, it would have been bad press and privacy complaints for many news cycles. And that's if there were no fuckups and the app worked well. If the public had any appetite for that kind of intervention, I'm sure those companies would have been happy to do it.
And for what upside? It's not like you're going to earn additional customers by having the better contact tracing framework.
Two ways this could have happened: western citizens could have demanded it loudly and with general concurrence, or western governments could have banded together and ordered it done. Failing those two, it wasn't going to happen. (China, Taiwan and Korea chose the latter route.)
- dzhiurgis 6y agoSometimes it’s ok absorb some backlash in the sake of humanity (or environment fwiw). Instead they are recording record profits specifically because of pandemic.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoIt's fine to wish for people to selflessly take on negative sentiment for the betterment of all. It's another thing to expect it. If we want certain behaviors, it's better to build systems that reward them rather than dreaming of a counterfactual that will never exist.