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No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British

Posted by samzenpus on from the none-for-us-thank-you dept.

GMGruman writes "The BBC has stirred up quite a row in Britain about a shocking use of taxpayer funds: creating iPhone apps to provide citizens services. As InfoWorld blogger Galen Gruman notes, it's apparently bad in Britain for the government to use modern technology during a recession, a mentality he likens as a shift from 'cool Britannia' to 'fool Britannia.'"

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  1. Re:Maybe something everybody can use? by JustinRLynn · · Score: 5, Funny

    iPhone is best (NSFW language)

  2. Re:Maybe something everybody can use? by BagOBones · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOtC9QfXac the other side also NSFW language

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    EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
  3. Re:iphone by zwei2stein · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but how else are brittish going to "donate" money to ipod developer nephew of director?

    He has to make living, you know ... what better way to provide him that giving him project that no-one will really use (and thus noone will complain about if it goes horribly wrong.).

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    -- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
  4. Re:It's the upcoming cuts, not the recession by tnok85 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Listen. The coolness of Britannia is at risk here. I can't imagine any course of action except to accelerate these iPhone app plans, unless Britannia wants to take over for France as the uncool kid on the block.