Along with concerns about privacy and whether enough people will opt in, there's another big hurdle for Apple and Google's contact-tracing initiative: around half the world's population still doesn't have smartphones
San Francisco Apple and Google may have set aside their smartphone rivalry to help track the spread of the coronavirus. And between their Android and iOS operating systems, the new contact tracing technology they are jointly developing — which tells smartphone users if they've been around someone who tested positive for the virus — could make its way to billions of devices.
But along with concerns around privacy and whether enough people will opt in to make the technology effective, there's another big hurdle: around half the world's population still doesn't have smartphones. And while the Bluetooth capability it's built on isn't necessarily restricted to smartphones, it will also require public health apps that can only be downloaded on the companies' smartphone operating systems.
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