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OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k

Posted by samzenpus on from the money-well-spent dept.

itwbennett writes "How much does it cost to make a phone app to tell local temperature and suggest how not to get heatstroke, such as drink water and avoid alcohol? If you're the U.S. Government, it'll cost you a pretty penny. Using MuckRock to file a Freedom of Information Act, Rich Jones of GUN.IO discovered the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration paid $106,467 for the Android version; $96,000 for the iPhone version, and an additional $40,000 for a BlackBerry app that never got distributed."

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  1. wow, a guy made a mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    if it was in corporate America nobody would ever hear about it. since it's government, every conservative creep in the world is going to dump in his pants over it. american politics are too stupid to care about.

    1. Re:wow, a guy made a mistake by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The people ARE the government.

      So you are the government? That's great. Is everything going exactly as you want it? No? Then it must be that your assertion is wrong.

      You don't pay the government for the privilege of living, and reading that actually makes me a little sick to my stomach.

      Swallowing a straw man will make anyone feel a little queasy.

      Your attitude is the problem, not the solution.

      My attitude or your straw man's attitude? Because if you mean my attitude, I'm fairly sure it's your attitude too. You're still living under the protection of society, right?