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Smartphone Required (digital exclusion of people without smartphones)
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If that was a real issue, I imagine you'd start seeing a compatibility layer for Android apps offered on whatever other system. iOS might be harder because of deliberate cryptographic or hardware vendor lock-in.
As many of these apps (especially banking apps) won't work on a rooted phone, I don't think they'd work on a compatibility layer.
Think DRM like BattlEye not working on Proton on Linux, certain checks would fail unless they rewrite the app to address this, and still the Play Store would be required to stay up for this to work.
TIL. That's depressing, somebody at the bank cared enough to deliberately ruin our fun.
I’ve not tested a banking app on a rooted phone but what I care about is escaping the ecocidal practice of designed obsolescence whereby people are needlessly forced to buy more new hardware to update their software. So I tried running a banking app on an Android emulator and it refused to run.
So there are 2 show-stoppers for banking apps for me:
If a bank were competent enough to eliminate those two factors, I would also likely demand the app be open source.
Hmm. I wonder what the issue is, exactly. Just by the way Turing machines work you should be able to make it run in an emulator somehow.