You have the totally wrong expectations here. Some service that requires citizens to buy and bring their own devices in order to use a service will by definition always be exclusive. Whining about lacking compatibility with some niche sbowflake devices is just inappropriate in this context. The only solutiin is to require an actually convenient fallback for those otherwise excluded from that service.

The limited selection of attestation providers can be criticized for many other reasons, though.

also German here, we have to get rid of the 100% perfection at launch expectation its crippling this country

> Why are we not refusing to implement this until we know we can make it work on all devices?

Simply put: this will never happen. Way too many devices implementations to make this a reality.

Do all German hospitals serve vegan food?

If you were averse to carrots (without any health restrictions on eating them), would every government institution in Germany be required to serve you carrot-free food?

If not, why should they be forced to accommodate every smartphone brand in existence, even if there's only 3 people in Germany using it? THe list has to end somewhere.

> it will not serve all citizens

This is an understatement. Better phrasing would be "when it allows two unaccountable foreign companies to lock citizens out of the digital market".

There are plenty of horror stories of tech giants frivolously banning people. We shouldn't be adding state support to that. I don't want to lose access to digital banking because of some deliberately vague "community guidelines" violation, or because I got mass-reported to some "e-safety" provider that both Apple and Google outsource to.

Sibling comments see this as a good solution, just not a perfect one. I see it as making a bad problem worse.

because then it will never get done. There are still people using old Nokia phones, for those there will never be a solution.

The usual 80/20 rule applies here as well.

And if you really are a German citizen, you know how slow the wheels of government already turn in Germany, I assume next week you would be the one complaining that "Germany is so far behind" and that "other countries are so much faster at implementing stuff" :)

Do we have stats how many germans use something else than Google Android, Samsung Knox or Apple? I recon it should be less than 1% which quite honestly is in fact „all“ citizens.