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Kent's NHS Trust is hoping that youngsters' love of iPhones, coupled with a new app, will lead to a fall in teen pregnancies in the county. The Community NHS Trust has created software that will guide lust-prone, iPhone-owning young people in Kent towards stashes of free condoms. The GPS-enabled iPhone app displays Kent's " …

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  1. JDX Gold badge
    Holmes

    Cue "how dare they make proprietary solutions with taxpayers' money"

    Saved you the bother ;) Though how hard would an HTML5 version be?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      The question is more

      What % of their target market actually has iPhones vs. BBs or Androids?

      Proprietary is one thing - not targeting the most popular* teenage smartphone platform would be something else** all together.

      * I don't pretend to know what teenagers in Kent favor, but don't think it's too crazy to assume that the average teen isn't running around with an iPhone due to price alone

      ** Maybe the NHS believes iPhone users are more promiscuous/risqué than Android/BB users... <joking> and that Android users are all virgins? It is Linux after all... </joking>

      1. Arctic fox
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        RE: "The question is more"

        "I don't pretend to know what teenagers in Kent favor, but don't think it's too crazy to assume that the average teen isn't running around with an iPhone due to price alone"

        I am absolutely certain that the demographic they are going to reach are the children of the well-to-do middle classes in Kent.

        1. Ken Hagan Gold badge

          Re: children of the well-to-do

          Well if you can afford an iPhone, you can afford to buy your own condoms, so actually this probably isn't the target audience. My guess is that the target audience is journalists. Kent NHS wanted some free publicity for their CAPs and figured they might get a few column inches out of "There's a CAP for that!".

    2. amanfromearth

      I think you mean

      Prophylactic solutions.

      There, fixed that for you

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    iCame

    1. Kool-Aid drinker
      Coat

      I hope you used an iCondom?

  3. Blofeld's Cat
    Coat

    Kent's "Condom Access Points"...

    Is that some sort of euphemism?

    Has anyone warned Superman?

    1. Uncle Slacky Silver badge
      Joke

      More of an acronym

      As in "Get your condom at a CAP".

      Now, if their supplier was from the Netherlands...

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Let's get this out of the way

    iPhone user and need for a condom => mutually exclusive

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Let's get this out of the way

      I understand the thumbs down, you lot want to keep your hands clean.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tried the app

    it's rubbersh

  6. xyz Silver badge
    Alert

    err....

    So does anyone over 18 have to stand outside waiting for a 17 year old to go in and get him free johnnies?

    1. frank ly

      Yes....

      ...In exchange for buying cans of lager at the supermarket for the 17 year old.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        RE: Yes....

        That's one of the best posts I've read in ages! Nice!

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    the android app

    just shows you how to do anal

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Whereas iPhone users

      don't need any help with that.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Could be worse

    From the headline, I was expecting an app that showed you how to *use* condoms, not where to get them.

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