I've had the same exact experience. You lose connection once and there's no way to get back to your music without restarting the app. The iOS version is better but still not amazing.
I dunno, giving people who might not be able to afford a masters otherwise or aren’t able to move away for two years an opportunity to get half a masters degree from home seems like a pretty big deal to me.
Given that this was an entirely predictable series of events, I think it's pretty damning in itself that there was no playbook to deal with this sort of uprising.
While at the individual level it probably makes sense to err on the side of inaction, at the organizational level this is a massive failure.
I wonder how you would register a positive case, since every public health authority has a different system for doing that part. I suppose you just have to download the app in that case?
It seems to not require an app. Apple calls this an App-less experience -- as if having an app was the still supported but the legacy way. In their description of "step 5" at the below link, users can enter an eight digit code or follow a url to inform their phone of an infection.
If the idea is to convince non-technical people of the importance of privacy, the article should have just stuck to that. Parts like the free vs. open source discussion seem unnecessary.
