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The New York Police Department's Deputy Commissioner of IT has defended the department's purchase of $160 million worth of obsolete Windows phones after a New York Post article criticized the "boondoggle". The NYPD plans to switch to iPhones:
On Monday, Jessica Tisch, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of information technology, wrote a scathing defense of the NYPD's choice of Windows phone.
The two-year project wrapped up in October and cost $160 million. It put Windows phones into the hands of all 36,000 officers.
The NY Post's Tina Moore originally reported on the change with the headline: NYPD needs to replace 36K useless smartphones. In the article Moore points out:
"Just months after the last phone was handed out, officials plan to begin replacing them all with brand-new iPhones by the end of the year, sources said."
This clearly didn't sit well with Tisch. She penned a retort that extolled the virtues of the Windows smartphone program, while also confirming that the NYPD has given up on Windows in favor of iPhones.
The smartphones purchased were the Lumia 830 and Lumia 640 XL.
Blog post defending the use of Windows phones. Also at New York Magazine, The Register, and Mac Rumors.
Older article about the "crime-fighting phone".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @11:19PM (1 child)
It should be illegal for the government (especially public schools) to use proprietary software at all. They should either be forced to write the software they need themselves or use existing Free Software. It is completely intolerable that the government is dependent upon large corporations to do their computing; by doing so, it is not promoting freedom and education.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @07:44PM
it's sedition, plain and simple. throw them into the boston harbor.