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Of course not saving jobs = more people on benefits, free houses and all the glitzy stuff that immigrants flee war torn countries come over for. It’s not a zero sum game to the public purse.

The economy tanks either way. Plugging the gap temporarily, for industries that are sustainable in normal times, would be better in the long run than mass unemployment and a longer lasting recession.

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Sadly it won't work for every smartphone. So my son and I have it but not my husband who having had lung cancer really needs to be shielded from Covid.

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It's generally for any device that's 5 years old or newer as it needed active development from Apple and Google to add in the tracking mechanism.

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Realised I should have said devices with an OS 5 years old or newer!

For Android it's on Android 6 and above with the Play Store installed
For iOS it's iOS 13.5 or newer - so that's on the iPhone 6S or later

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The plot thickens.

Revealed: Sir Patrick Vallance has £600,000 shareholding in firm contracted to develop vaccines

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...rm-contracted/


https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/p...-a4555141.html


Well now i see why the graph went off the scale,induced panic means more wonga.

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There's perhaps a huge plot around the gravy train between politics, the private sector, and public appointments/peerages. However he declared his interest and steps were taken.

If you are pulling an adviser from the top of any industry you're inevitably going to have someone who has shares. You can't then use it against him when you don't like the advice.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54279370

Very helpful..:rolleyes:

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Probably got shares in a phone company.

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The app may simply require hardware that isn't in older phones. Any information on that?

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It's not the hardware it's the OS updates that make it work

Apple added the needed Covid notification changes to iOS 13.5 and later only, and Google to Android 6 or later that has the Play Store available.

The Government were criticised in trying to make an app that didn't use the Apple and Google OS options so they switched
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336

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iOS and Android APIs have to be baked into the operating system itself (or a modular component of it for Android).

Both Google and Apple have rolled it out to pretty much every single phone they support. Apple tend to support phones for a long time so they just added it to iOS 13 which goes back to 6S in 2015. Google usually don't but rolled it back to as far as I guess was technically feasible for them which is Android 6.

That is pretty far back for software on phones. If someone else tried to go further back, or even as far back as Apple/Google did, there is no assurance they wouldn't have had access to the functionality they needed in such old phones. In fact we know Apple don't let you have whatever location or background privileges you want now.

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At least one Supermarket has decided to stop the panic buyers early ;



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If the Government want to buy me a new "smart" phone, they are more than welcome. Otherwise, I'll stick with my trusty little J700.

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Life imitates art, or the other way around.

https://youtu.be/PFROZ8vGGlc

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Apparently Tescos was the same this morning (Mrs B went this morning)

We started building up a stock of nonperishable essentials about 2 months ago week by week in case panic buying reared its' head again due to a second wave and with half an eye on the end of the year

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So what? I suppose nobody has looked at the history of GSKs share price. It was over £1,800 8months ago, whereas now it's around £400 less. Some profiteering.:rolleyes:

They are a major company, so it's unlikely they weren't going to be involved somewhere along the line.

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App installed OK on my work iPhone 5SE but I don't carry it around when not on-call so not as useful as could be. Don't have my own phone at all, don't need or want one.