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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 Thursday August 31 2017, @01:45AM
Over $2000/phone isn't hard to do if you are spending money someone else is obliged to pay.
Its easy to be generous if someone else is on the hook for the tab, along with being held harmless for irresponsible decisions.
This is to me just a strong indication that way too much tax monies are being collected and rerouted through handshakers.
The monoculture part is scary. Imagine the power of being able to shut down the entire police force communication just as easy as bricking a bunch of locks. I think the people who are implementing this are in dire need of a review to see if their intelligence and wisdom warrant the authority given to them.
To me, this is just as scary as our monoculture corn... and here NK is toying with nuclear weapons... One good monoculture corn blight and we will go into civil riots over food shortages, and do lots more damage than missiles ever could, while leaving the land open for new ownership.