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Australian State Govt. To Fund iPads For Doctors

Posted by samzenpus on from the nice-perk dept.

angry tapir writes "The current premier of the Australian state of Victoria, John Brumby, has promised every doctor in Victoria's public hospital system would be issued with an Apple iPad if his incumbent Labor Government was returned to power in the state's upcoming election."

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  1. Ignore Victorian politics for a while by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm a Victorian but I have only been skimming the news. Basically our politicians are saying whatever they think might help them get [re]elected even if it sounds totally stupid. For example the Liberal party is proposing to build train lines in metropolitan Melbourne. In my 45 years of living in this city the only thing the Liberals have done with trains is close them down (and then Labor reopen them), so a Liberal politician who says he is going to build a train line is clearly talking crap.

    The iPads will be forgotten on the Sunday morning after the Saturday election.

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  2. Governments shouldn't buy a product by anti-NAT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should specify standards that multiple competing products can comply with. How can anybody but Apple win this under a competitive tender?

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  3. Re:App store by PhunkySchtuff · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, in an enterprise environment (or anywhere else really for that matter) you are free to sign up as a developer, get a developer signing certificate and deploy apps to iOS devices under your control and these apps don't have to go anywhere near the app store.

    Have a look starting at page 63 here:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pdf

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