How vile must one person be to keep doing things like this? Well, I guess it takes someone who had no qualms about bullying an old lady with dementia in order to squeeze out a negative story about SPF from her - and then never apologize for it.
This is who Terry Xu is and yet he finds quite a few followers, who are either as evil as he is - or as dimwitted, lazy and ignorant to gobble up any anti-gov BS he spews.
Taking a dig at Li Hongyi wasn't enough, he had to bring up another, old BS article about how, supposedly, a few students made an app just like parking.sg right before GovTech did.
And he is clearly counting on your ignorance to sell it.
What baffles me time and time again is just how intellectually deficient so many people are not to ask themselves a question - why are companies like Uber worth billions of dollars?
How difficult is it to make an app like Uber, which just relies on GPS + client devices connecting to the app and calculating distance over time? And why is Uber employing 27,000 people to manage it?
Do you EVER stop and think? Really? What the hell do you think all of these people are doing there? Playing Candy Crush all day?
Guess what, you can actually buy clones of many popular services like Uber, Facebook, Twitteryou name it, for as little as 50 bucks. And yes, a group of students can recreate most of the basic functions of most digital products out there.
But deploying it at scale, reliably, securely and quickly, is another challenge altogether.
Of course you're not going to hear it from Terry and his fake Singaporeans from Malaysia - because neither he nor they are interested in actually informing you. They're only interested in manipulating you into thinking ill of Singapore.
TOC is just a massive, misleading propaganda tube, poorly masquerading as local "journalism", while employing foreigners and pretending to be writing about other countries as a cover for its real goal.
Building mobile applications that millions of people can use securely and accurately takes more than a bunch of students pulling a few all-nighters.
Primarily, you need proper infrastructure behind it - designed and deployed for the scale you expect to reach. And you then have to make sure it works on all platforms, that it can handle the load of thousands of people using it concurrently, that their data is secure, that nobody can simply hijack their location or particulars from either the app itself or the servers it uses (or that these servers don't go down every five minutes) that payments are processed swiftly, securely and without error.
And then you have to keep it all up to date, troubleshooting errors on dozens of different devices, and keep it working with every new generation of software and hardware that hits consumer markets.
It's not something you do once and then forget.
Have you ever noticed just how many times your regular apps get updated? How and why do you think it happens? That it just appears out of the blue? Those thousands of people are working full-time jobs keeping them working.
When an organization like GovTech produces a digital solution it has to instantly work well at nationwide scale. It cannot be a broken prototype that a garage band startup is throwing out to prove their concept and find a few fans.
Parking.sg received S$1.96 million funding for 4 years in 2017 - that's half a million per year from start to finish that paid for its creation and kept it going. It's not a massive global app but it still needed a team of engineers/developers/designers to build it and now maintain it.
But a devious character like Terry wants to convince the public that a few poly students could have done it all better and cheaper! Or that, GASP!, Li Hongyi actually stole their idea! (yeah, I've read comments like this)
Seriously?
