> the official APIs and be done with it Ah, you mean the official API that hasn't been released yet, will take even longer to roll out, and won't be available

> the official APIs and be done with it Ah, you mean the official API that hasn't been released yet, will take even longer to roll out, and won't be available on older models? Great idea. Not to mention the fact that Google's proposal works quite differently from NHSX's one. Google's appears to be slightly more privacy focused, which also gives it a smaller feature set, particularly around epidemic analysis and dealing with malicious entries. Maybe they will end up backtracking and just implement the Google APIs. Wouldn't be the end of the world if they did. But I would think that just illustrates the power Apple/Google have over their OSes, rather than the incompetence of the initial appraoch.