Apple did not make the decision here, the German government did. The government would have been free to try to force Apple's hand with sanctions or any other to

Apple did not make the decision here, the German government did. The government would have been free to try to force Apple's hand with sanctions or any other tool available to them. Time will tell but I feel like reducing this to the technical decision of Apple is slightly one sided. The PEPP-PT proposal was a pseudonymous, centralized, social graph of all users in the app with a rather opaque power structure behind it. The government got pushback from many sides on this issue and several EU neighbours publicly endorsed the decentralized DP3T. This is a complementary tool for an epidemiological use case that heavily depends on public adoption, while PEPP-PT tried to push this narrative of "Apple vs France/Germany" over the last week through lobbying I do not think it's an accurate/comprehensive depiction of the decision making process in a democratic government.