Apple Signs $159 Million Gov't Contract for iPhone, iPad

[zakislam]

Nearly 10,000 officers will receive iOS devices.

Apple Signs $159 Million Gov't Contract for iPhone, iPad : Read more

 

[internetlad]

In other news, patrol car accidents are up 300 percent Officers claim that apple maps directed them to drive into ditches and off ridges.

 

[derekullo]

Good thing they live on an island. How lost could you get ...

 

[fuzzion]

Give them 2 months and they will wish they choose galaxy instead.

 

[master_chen]

"Financial Crisis? World's starving? US/EU economics are in deep sh*t? USA's on a brink of war with Iran/North Korea/China? Nah, didn't heard. OH! New iPhone! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" (c) Obama.

 

[deksman]

Agreed with 'master_chen'.

I mean, lets ignore the premise of a 'financial crisis', the prospect of close to 1.5 billion people starving of which 15 million children die annually (regardless of the notion that we've been producing enough to feed 10 billion each year for over 30 years now), or that 50% of the global population lives on less than $2 per day.
Lets also ignore the premise that we can easily provide a 3x higher living standard to each person on the planet compared to what the richest people currently enjoy if we simply used our latest science and technology and unleashed it into the social system (and used it intelligently - full blown automation, elimination of planned obsolescence, production of abundance using less raw resources and energy by creating self-sufficient systems and superior synthetic materials which can be made in abundance).

The article is typical stupidity at its finest.
Ignore the actual problems that are occurring in the world and just focus on idiocy to keep things as they are.

When will people learn that governments are not problem solvers?
Real change never came from government or people in positions of power.

 

[Xeddicus]

They asked the cops what they wanted. Of course they wanted free Iphone/pads and not cheaper, just as usable alternatives...

 

[Microgoliath]

Are we still on tomshardware? all i see is comments about hunger, poverty, government and war.

OT: Don't see the need for officers to even have smartphones, they just need something that lasts (smartphones? lol) which can make calls. They gonna be called in for a emergency and still take the extra time to Apple map the location? they already take long enough to get to places as is.

 

[damianrobertjones]

So... Let's forget active directory and group policy... let's forget years and years of backwards compatibility or active digitizers. Let's forget machines like the Lenovo Tablet 2, Dell latitude 10 or Samsung 500t. Let's forget all of that.

Someone, somewhere, got a VERY large financial incentive to go Apple.

 

[back_by_demand]

So they chose the iPhone by surveying the end user and chose the one with the most votes?

Since when are NZ flatfoots qualified to decide what is technically best for the job, surely that should be decided by the IT department, a lot of the votes will be from users that want a shiney iPhone and for no other reason

 

[master_chen]

They asked the cops what they wanted. Of course they wanted free iPhones/iPads and not cheaper, just as usable alternatives...

I lol'd.

Are we still on Tom's?

Yes.

All I see is comments about hunger, poverty, government and war.

Just yet another, usual, boring, slow day. :\

Also: Mixing "Micro" and "Goliath" in one word is an absolute /0.

 

[master_chen]

Bad example, Ankitox-kun...bad example. :\

 

[killerclick]

The only reasonable choice.

If they chose Google or Microsoft, they would have two vendors to deal with, one the OEM (Samsung, LG, Nokia, whoever), and one for the OS (Google or Microsoft). In case of Google, they'd have a vendor whose business model is basically selling advertising, while Microsoft is a niche player in mobile at the moment with a big question mark over the future of its products.

Seeing how the cost of the actual devices is only a fraction of the entire contract, the fact that Apple's devices are sold at a premium, isn't a big issue for them.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Windows phones werent in the equation. This started 11 months ago, and noone in their right mind would have included an MS Phone back then. The handsets tested were iPhone, Blackberry and Android phone.

http://www.intomobile.com/2013/02/15/new-zealand-police-buying-10000-ios-devices/

I cant find anything on what other tablets were used.

Oh, and Australias Treasure department is ditching their Blackberrys for iPhones.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/06/australias-treasury-department-switches-from-blackberry-to-iphone

 

[rantoc]

So what the Gov say here is that its fully all right to evade taxes ect and the Gov still make business with the evading company rather than some honest competitor....

In later news the Gov have reopened the 3 bil $ lawsuit vs Samsung due to better brib err evidence!

 

[devBunny]

$4.3 million for 10,000 averages $430 per device. That's a hell of a discount for bulk purchasing. Not!

$159 million over 10 years is $15.9 million per year. $1590 TCO per device per annum?!?

Whoever their purchasing manager is, I'd like to discuss business! :-D

 

[devBunny]

@master_chen, deksman and rantoc - You did notice that it's New Zealand and not the Good ol' U.S. of A., didn't you? Or is it that any excuse will do for rant mode? ;o)

 

[ericburnby]

Yet another organization that has studied iOS and Android and picked iOS. Yet the haters/losers will still come in with their "expert" opinion as to why the decision was wrong, not based on factual data or reason, but simply because one company is Apple.

Does it bother you that much that Apple is taking over the enterprise and major companies who have actually spent time testing both pick iOS?

 

[master_chen]

Bugs:
Of course. I just made an example on how Government "officials" (including "Mister President") usually think/act.
It's same for almost all westerner countries. We maybe "commies" (LOL!), but at least we don't do such stupid things as these, because we have brains and fine with using them.

 

[leandrodafontoura]

Iphones can run google maps anyway

 

[master_chen]

Hahah, wut?

 

[master_chen]

It's not that, it's entire sentence that made me crack.
"Google Maps on iPhone". That's just utterly hilarious considering recent situation.

 

[bllue]

New Zealand government needs to be aware they just got ripped off lol. They could've gotten a cheaper contract from other companies. They overpaid by like $50 million

 

[master_chen]

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[soundping]

iPhone belongs to Gradiente Eletronica not Apple.