Spain’s popular payment platform Bizum is preparing to enter physical retail stores in a move that could reshape the country’s payments market and increase pressure on international card providers such as Visa and Mastercard. Starting May 18, Bizum Pay will allow customers to make direct account-to-account payments at shop counters using near-field
If you go that way, you need Google to even use Android.
It sucks, but until we get actual wide-spread Linux phones there’s not a lot individual consumers can do.
I keep an eye on the future Graphene phone with Motorola, but even then as long as the vast majority of users will use Android/iOS, banks don’t have pressure to support other systems.
I have two extra phone for android auto and those pesky banking and depot-apps. With fakeaccounts, on isolated networks, stripped of everything strippable.
Motorola phones are actually pretty barebone and come from supercheap to cheap-ish.
My main driver is graphene until my ancient pixel finally dies, then I’ll switch to one of the Linux-phones.