[LINK] classification of Apps? What next?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

> Surveying 303 students at Kansas State University, most of them ages 19 through 24, KSU professor Esther Swilley found that a majority of them were attached to their phones due to the devices' entertainment value, not for communication. The results are just preliminary and have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. 
<http://www.livescience.com/14830-cellphone-attachment-entertainment-communication.html>

Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Mmmm,
> 
> Lets see ... 500 to 600 thousand apps already in the wild for phones 
> and tablets, increasing at the rate of about 10,000 per month.
> 
> Most could be described as mash-ups (BTW how come these idiots don't 
> want to rate Web apps, which are similarly proliferating?) but no 
> matter.
> 
> So to rate each and every one of those apps would take approximately 
> an hour per app (3-5 minutes to rate, and 55 minutes to fill out the 
> supporting documentation) which means 5-600,000 man hours to take up 
> the back logged slack and an ongoing10,000 man hours per month to 
> rate the new ones coming online (and what about updates to old ones? 
> Can't let them slip under the net!).
> 
> I'd estimate a conservative number of 3000 full time government paid 
> censors would have no trouble clearing this up in say 10 years or so, 
> and only 1000 to 1500 or so would need to be retained in the long 
> term for the new apps and updates that come online. Of course they'd 
> need supervising, administration, superannuation, and logistics like 
> places to work and the normal amenities ... so if we factor salaries 
> and incidental costs at say $120,000 per employee (in 2011 dollars) 
> you're looking at a pretty big bill (circa $3.6 billion per annum for 
> 10 years reducing to $1.8 billion per annum after 10 years) just to 
> run this highly unnecessary white elephant. I mean ... IT WOULD COST 
> MORE THAN THE NBN, and nothing would be redeemed by way of sale or 
> whatever after 10 years.
> 
> Has anyone even bothered explaining the economics of this to our 
> political idiots?
> 
> Of course, if the 3000 odd employees were taken from the ranks of the 
> Holy Joes it could probably be hidden away in the Welfare budget.
> 
> And what would they call the new department?
> 
> 				Regards,
> 
> At 7:57 AM +1000 29/6/11, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> [note, this is Liberal dominated, not ALP like the past]
>> http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/apps-games-could-be-classified-to-ensure-unity-20110628-1gp5s.html
>>
>> Apps, games could be classified to ensure 'unity'
>>   Karl Quinn
>> June 29, 2011
>>
>>   Mobile phone apps and games may be subject to classification.
>> Photo: Suzanne White
>>
>> MAKERS of mobile phone apps and games could be made to submit their
>> products for classification if the recommendations of a senate
>> inquiry are adopted.
>>
>> The Liberal-dominated committee of review into the National
>> Classification Scheme has urged an expansion of regulation in
>> Australia so that the scheme ''should apply equally to all content,
>> regardless of the medium of delivery''.
>>
>> [more at the link]
>> [what next? We are already facing anti-blue-language law in Victoria
>> (also Liberal Govt, btw). This is getting ridiculous. It smacks of
>> the 'technology neutral' stuff we saw in the days of Senator Dick
>> Alston running Communications.]
>> Jan
>>
>> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
>> jwhit at janwhitaker.com
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>>
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