I think this is disturbing and should be made illegal—to tie a government service to a single corporate provider in this way. I don't care how much money Apple paid to develop this, or how convenient they made it for the state of Hawaii to adopt their ready-made product, or how inconvenient it would be to a do this in an platform-agnostic way equitable to all of their residents. This is simply a monopolistic abuse of government services, and of the public.

Any such service should be free and open to many providers, or not available at all. No fast-lanes for Apple customers. This is not how a fair, equitable public service should work.

- "Requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16.5 or later, Apple Watch Series 4 or later with WatchOS 9.5 or later" (hidot.hawaii.gov)

(I've browsed around this website and there doesn't appear to be any other option equivalent to this one).