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OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k
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."
If it was corporate America, the company that spent money in this fashion might go out of business.
Hahah. No, the company that spent money that way would then proceed to A) pay a PR firm to drive up the value of their stock, B) let the CEOs sell off some of their options, C) dilute the value of their stock D) sell privileged shares to exclusive private investors, E) file for bankruptcy and shaft the stockholders F) emerge from bankruptcy after letting a few executives move on to better paying positions at different companies with lovely severance packages F) find more fools to pour in more "venture capital" for a new effort G) put their former executives on the Board of Directors because obviously they have tons of free time at their new day jobs H) Hire the Board of Directors of the company where the old executives got their new jobs into executive positions, and pay them higher salries as last time I) goto A)
Someone had to do it.