No, you can also get it for Windows and Huawei devices. So three American and one Chinese companies. Great.

With Salt Typhoon, that's a whole four ways to choose how China steals your data.

And to think, people said consumer choice was dead...

> designed exclusively for Android and Apple mobile devices

That's very different from requiring hardware attestation, though.

It is a little different. But not very different.

If it was developed by the government, shouldn't the source or an API be available? Surely third-party apps can be made in that case?

That'd be great but governments often don't make specs and source code available. Governments don't make things open.

The amount of stuff councils and state governments gatekeep about road specs alone... Argh.

The AusweisApp is Open Source and available on Windows, Linux and even FreeBSD too. You just need some NFC Scanner that works via USB and then you can use it without a mobile device. https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/open-source-software

This is the way to do it if you're gonna have a digital ID. Thank you Germany for setting a better example than many!