Digital single market, digital sovereignty and all those nice words...

Is it out of character for the EU to push a half baked solution out that covers most but a tiny fraction of the population only to get sued later on and rule against its own idea?

It's honestly quite baffling that the EU would want to put any more power in the hands of any US controlled company at this point. The US is a borderline hostile state, only recently threatening to invade Greenland among numerous other examples. The situation with Anthropic has illustrated that the US government will not hesitate to leverage power over US companies when it feels its interests are advantaged by doing so. If anything, the EU should be banning use of Google or Apple dependent architectures, not pseudo mandating them.

I think we're missing the important point here.

The problem is not that the ID wallets require Google and Apple. The problem is that we're getting eaten alive by this Big Brother called EU (lead by the UK initiatives) that is starting an unprecedented control over the population.

These ID wallets should be all optional, there should NOT be any age verifications.

I remember ~10 years ago when Europe was laughing at China's face detection systems to track citizens.

We're becoming much worse than that now.

The entire software even free one is. We need to exclude them all.

Absolutely baffling why the EU would be doing this.

> Governments are cementing a monopoly they claim to oppose

Duopoly but yea. Because there is no third alternative. Microsoft failed/gave up with Windows Phone. The people trying to fix secure government services can't really tackle that issue, but the systems needs to be built now anyway.

This quite literally validates those "tinhat conspiracy" folks, honestly the EU are not doing us or themselves any favours here. If it is intended to replace cash then it should function like cash. This limitation is draconian.

There is one thing after the next, under Von der Leyen and Metsola, its ridiculous.

Seif-Sovereign Identity wallets that are cross-device are the way around this, but relies on institutions following this path.

Vendor lock-in is real

I don't know who thought that national ids should be vetted by two private companies, not even European!

No thanks, I don't want any of that for obvious security reasons