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To make this app to make any impact it need at least 40% of phone owners to install the app and that is not going to happen. Best they just cancel the entire ill conceived idea. Government We simply DO NOT trust you
I want to discuss the CovidSafe and the discussion on radio of the inability to download the CovidSafe app.
I would love to participate in the CovidSafe app as one method for of health authorities being able to finally quash this evil clump of protein.
Many have reported to talkback radio and the comments section of newspapers that their particular phone won't download the app because the phone's operating system is incompatible with the app's minimum operating system.
For example the minimum requirement operating system ('OS') for CovidSafe on an android system is 6.0.
Many people have complained that their reliable three to four year old android phone is incompatible. Their phone's OS and mine included has android version 5.1.1.
For those with Samsung phones operating on android OS versions 5.1.1 it is IMPOSSIBLE to update the OS from 5.1.1 to version 6.0 in the same way that one can update a laptop's OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
If for example you do have a Samsung smartphone, and do the following taps: Settings > About Device >Software Update > Update Software Manually. Then you wait, and receive the message "The latest updates have already been installed".
Then when you do the following taps: Settings > About Device > Software Info, you will still see that Android has not updated to version 6.0, but remaining at 5.1.1.
BUT the Australian App developers could have developed CovidSafe for android 5.1. CovidSafe has been based on the application TraceTogether developed by our Singaporean neighbour. TraceTogether has been developed for version 5.1.
Singapore’s version using android 5.1, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sg.gov.tech.bluetrace&hl=en_AU
Australia’s version, android 6.0 and up https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.health.covidsafe
For Australians, don't download the TraceTogether app because it's programmed to send encrypted data to Singpore's health authorities.
Given that the covid-19 pandemic is recent, I see no problem in a version for android 5.1 because this app was released in 2020.
For the Australian developers of CovidSafe, please make a version for android versions 5.1. These phones are 4G capable and are reliable and many have been sold in the last three to four years.
When you do, I believe that many more owners of android phones with OS version 5.1.1 will download the app and participate in the quashing of this evil clump of complex protein.
Thank you,
Anthony of thinking Belfield