Comment by dabber21
6 hours ago
also German here, we have to get rid of the 100% perfection at launch expectation its crippling this country
6 hours ago
also German here, we have to get rid of the 100% perfection at launch expectation its crippling this country
Taxpayer money project being tied to a dependency on Apple google is 100% counter what that money should be used for.
You are copy pasting a “correct” argument against eu bureaucracy in the absolute wrong space
But things not in the launch can easily be deprioritized as budget issues indefinitely. “Oh why spend the money adding support for just a few people??” will be the line moving forward.
It would be cheaper to just buy all of the outliers a bottom of the barrel Android phone for them to use with the tax money.
Yes just like it’s cheaper to just provide people who can’t afford a phone in the US a phone by taxing other cell phone users - and I don’t have a problem with that.
And force them into the Google surveillance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
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This is not about 100% perfection at launch, this is about civil equality. Launching without broad support for use cases creates a two-tier society.
Refusing to send all your private data to the US to benefit their megacorps, using the tax payers' money, is not "perfection". It is the only reasonable and legal choice.
A 10% goal would be a good first step. Now excuse me while I read some tea leaves to find out if my trains will be on time tomorrow ( spoiler: they wont).
surely 10% of DB digital offerings work as expected, just not the 10% that is essential for train travel.