While the example your provide is reasonable fair, the comparison is not.

For it to be fair comparison, the carrots would have to be grown by a foreign company, known for using unsafe growing practices, causing contamination. Eg, poison carrots. This same company would have to be under the control of a very hostile, very actively aggressive and threatening nation.

Such as one currently threatening to annex allies, among other things.

With the US literally tapping and spying on heads of foreign states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Parliamentary_Committee...

and there being lots of ways to spy, such as push notifications:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...

Only insane people would objectively decide to use Google or Apple anything for any form of ID. Those platforms should literally be outlawed. Any use of push notifications or identity attention should be looked at as utter fantasy.

Here's a secret for you. There really isn't any urgent requirement to have an electronic identification method. It can wait. Supporting legislation can be passed first. There are lots of ways to do so.

For example, the entire EU could pass legislation stating that all cell phones have open source code available, including all binary blobs for drivers. And that all phones are unlockable, and that (for example) the phone has a version of the rom you can download without any Google services.

(If Apple isn't able to compete here, well... too bad)

The phones would not be legal to sell, unless the open source firmware was compiled in front of regulators. The point of this is another pet-peeve of mine, it would allow people to support their own phones, for that source code would be released the day that phone was no longer supported.

And yes, it's trivial to have open source firmware blobs. There just isn't a market for it. Pass a law, and sellers of SoC and other ICs will capitulate, or maybe more punitive laws will be passed against them. As someone once said, yes companies can have a lot of sway.

But governments have police, courts, and armies.

Right now, Android and Apple devices are a literal arm of the US government's spying apparatus, even if those two companies actively work against it.

Do not trust Google Play. Do not trust Firebase. Do not trust Google. At all.

Are Germans just too trusting? I remember 15 years ago, when nuclear power plants were closing, concerns were raised about the reliance on Russian natural gas. These were waved away. Russia? What's wrong with Russia! They're almost allies, they're capitalists now!

Don't do this again.

Do NOT trust Google. Don't. Don't make it a core part of any identity management.

Imagine, needing an active Google account to even bank! Or to file your taxes, or even to prove who you are!? Google cancels accounts with no recourse, no reason why, won't help anyone, and this is to be the core of identity management for Germany?

The average person won't even be able to install any German Government designed apps, unless they are on the Play store! Are you going to teach Grandma how to use ADB to install an app? Without an active Google Account, will you even be able to use push notifications?

Why would a government even allow ID to be blocked by the requirement that a company with terrible, horrible, inane customer service, which just kills accounts without recourse, be a gatekeeper?

No Google account, no ID! Wha!?

It's literally not sane.

German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function