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That’s a widely repeated though at best highly misleading number. It includes all of the backup telephone bank system (for getting the TANs for the actual relea
by hnaccount_rng 3y ago
That’s a widely repeated though at best highly misleading number. It includes all of the backup telephone bank system (for getting the TANs for the actual release [0]), the link to the public health system (for reporting) and the money to upgrade the lab systems so that these can enter the test results in the system.
Unfortunately I never saw a splitted-out version of the budget, but from the list above I’d be surprised if even 10% went to the actual app(s) itself.
[0] which, completely shockingly I know, massively reduced the number is released contact traces
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- rad_gruchalski 3y ago„Demnach erhielten die Entwickler und Betreiber der App, die Firmen SAP und Deutsche Telekom, im Jahr 2020 52,8 Millionen Euro. Im Folgejahr stiegen die Ausgaben auf 78,8 Millionen Euro. 2022 sanken die Kosten auf 68,6 Millionen.” What’s misleading, exactly?
- hnaccount_rng 3y agoThe "Betreiber" part includes the phone banks, which, being operated 24/7/365 and scaled for 80m inhabitants, will run a tab pretty quickly (in particular since I never heard anyone having trouble getting a person on the phone). And the "Entwickler" part includes software upgrades on the lab systems, which (IIRC and I'm far too lazy to actually go and check) were a couple of thousand. Effectively they upgraded all the lab systems in Germany with that money. None of that is covered when I'm thinking about "developed an app for XX EUR". The money isn't the misleading part, it's the insinuation for what it was spend that's misleading. If you can dig up a itemised bill I'd be very interested, but I don't think anyone will get that in the next 10 years without a huge effort involving actual courts...