[Confiks]

> The insane question here is, why would the EU mandate hardware attestation controlled by two private American companies in order to access services?

Please (kindly) ask Paolo De Rosa [1], Policy Officer at the European Commission and driver of many of the decisions behind the wallet and the ARF. His position is one of fatalism: that it's "too late"; the duopoly of Goople is entrenched, and it's therefore not a problem if the wallet project entrenches it even further. Regrettably quite a lot of member states agree, although representatives of France and Germany specifically are frequently standing up to the fatalism.

[1] https://github.com/paolo-de-rosa

[argomo]

That's so dumb... Europe did it with Airbus and they did it with GNSS. Come on Europe, make a smartphone! The hardware's only getting cheaper.