And we'll see how this plays out, perhaps it will be tragically ironic. The majority of people don't ever think about this and are happy to give their location info to Google constantly all day long. This protocol is in almost all ways much less intrusive and more protective of privacy, and the upside for society is potentially high.
It should be a complete no-brainer that everyone who is ok using google or apple maps, i.e. probably 95+% of the country, be ok downloading their local health department's contact tracing app if it uses these APIs. But we'll see how it plays out, in the end it will surely come down to how this is politicized and not actually be based on the technical merits of this protocol at all.
any time I've used garmin over the years it had been only slightly better then useless.
there are other options though. ive been using openstreetmap for about 4 years and have only found the need to use Google once in all that time. although with openstreetmap being crowd sources it really depends on how much work has been done in a particular area but in my country its pretty decent
It should be a complete no-brainer that everyone who is ok using google or apple maps, i.e. probably 95+% of the country, be ok downloading their local health department's contact tracing app if it uses these APIs. But we'll see how it plays out, in the end it will surely come down to how this is politicized and not actually be based on the technical merits of this protocol at all.