r/Glasgow Tools

You've confused me here. There's two parts to the app? One being a separate optional tracking part, and without that it does fuck all? So what's the point?

To my understanding there is not. There's not a separate tracking app afaik, but maybe something has changed recently.

Apparently now they've decided to go with the Google/apple APIs instead of their own app from scratch that they've just spunked a load of money at. So that waste of time and money was bad, and even absolute laymen like myself could obviously see where their original wasn't going to work.

The original intentions to collect all the data and store it centrally was bad. If the new app, if it ever comes out, doesn't do that now then that's a good thing - but you could see their wee "all your data is belongs to us" cocks getting hard at the thought.

So if an app ever materialises (they're now saying it will be ready for winter, when we were supposed to have a "world beater" already going by now) it might not actually be bad but it won't be good either - it requires an incredibly high percentage of people to know how to and choose to install it on their phones, so it will probably be pointless because not enough people will have it.

That's why it's "bad". It's been a waste of time and money, a fantastic piece of British exceptionalism and even now that it's failed as it was always obviously going to the simpler idea of using Google/apple tech isn't going to work too well either because there will be a lack of uptake from the public, not least because the disastrous way they've attempted to roll it out will have eroded all confidence from anyone who's been paying attention.