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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by blocked_again on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:28AM (#23898755)
That's around 1.5 million downloads.

Meanwhile, Play Store says India's Covid tracing app was downloaded by more than 100 million+ people.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogy...

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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by rsynnott on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:38PM (#23899478)
With these things, you're really trying to get saturation (I think it's usually estimated that they need to get to about 60% adoption to be very useful), so in that context 1.5 million downloads in Ireland is more successful than 100m in India (though neither is good enough).
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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by blocked_again on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:15PM (#23908089)
Makes sense.
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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by robjan on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:34PM (#23899448)
An app with a higher percentage of the population enrolled is probably more successful than sheer numbers in this case.
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