ABTraceTogether (promoted by Alberta provincial gov)
COVID Alert (Canada-wide, promoted by Federal gov)
ABTraceTogether uses OpenTrace. Currently (1.4.0) release notes claim OpenTrace runs in background, but as far as I can tell it does not do so reliably nor without draining iPhone battery. This is based on Australian news texting app with same framework.
If anyone wants to run ABTraceTogether in Alberta (and I do) that's great for them. But I'd like try understand a few things to try help enable COVID Alert in Alberta. Currently COVID Alert (in Alberta) is not being supplied with one-time keys. Apparently this is due to Alberta provincial gov insisting we use ABTraceTogether instead of COVID Alert.
That is, our provincial gov in insisting we use an OpenTrace app instead of the federal one using the Google/Apple Exposure Notification API.
My questions:
There is no limitation keeping Alberta from supplying one-time-keys to COVID Alert, while also continuing to promote ABTraceTogether, correct? I mean both apps can be downloaded and run in Alberta already.
Can the Canadian gov see install stats per-province? My own (personal app project) stats only show Canadian installs, and NOT provincial. If the feds could make the case more people in Alberta installed the federal app than the provincial one, that might help encourage Alberta gov to support the federal app.
Can/should Apple reject the provincial app? If no one is using it, and it can never work properly on iPhones, there are ultimately lives at stake in my home province and my home city.
If anyone in any country has seen a similar deadlock, and insight in how to help resolve it, please share any ideas.
Or, any frank assessment of OpenTrace. Maybe it is worth supporting, and we simply need to give-up on ever seeing a "proper" EN-API app here?
