They didn't "ban" them, but they did enable some attestation feature that effectively "bans" anything that isn't Google Android.

Which still makes you wonder why Volkswagen is so keen on alienating what little is left of their customer base with completely stupid security theater.

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inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because the EU is run by lawyers and lawsuits. They probably decided there was a risk of being sued for insufficient security if they didn't enable every security feature, and they considered it as zero impact to customers because nobody uses graphene.

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hypfer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but that is still very confusing to me, because you're not paying other people money so that they just follow incentives without thinking, vision or backbone.

The whole idea of buying something is giving people money for their (assumed correct) judgement, which then leads to desired artifacts downstream.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, the idea of buying is that you get something in exchange for money.

	▲	hypfer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but not any something, but a specific something shaped by taste.

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tsss 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The people at VW don't think about the customer. They are essentially bureaucrats who only live to expand their personal fiefdom in the bureaucracy. I bet that many in the IT-security team would insist that their team doesn't have customers.