I know, crossing fingers for it to stay like that. As I said, in some cases, there are no alternatives. Fortunately, it still is not the norm in France.

However, I was in a town in Norway for some years, and I either had to have Android to pay for the bus or go in the very few allowed stores (I knew only two in the whole 70k-inhabitant city; very convenient when the point is to buy tickets to get around) with restricted opening hours to buy paper tickets at twice the price. No tickets sold in the bus, company policy. I guess it's for security reasons, but Norway is one of the safest countries in the world and it's not just because bus drivers have no cash on them.

For parkings, I never found a way to pay without the application of the private company operating all parking lots in the town (including road sides) or another compatible Android application. And there was not a single free parking spot in the town, town policy.

I also have two accounts in neobanks based in Germany and France. None of them can be used without an Android smartphone. Sure, you shouldn't be able to open an account if you don't have such a phone in the first place (which is admittedly very questionable already), but then they keep updating their apps over time, and with it the API requirement. With N26, the German one, I could open the account, but one year later, Android 4.4 (restricted by my Alien Dalvik version) was not compatible anymore. Not even a warning some days/weeks before the update. Couldn't do anything. Not even a bank wire to get the money that was still on my account; they have a website, but every operation needs to be confirmed on the phone. Their customer service refused to help, said it is not safe to bypass their restrictions and they don't even have the tools to do so. They told me I just have to update my OS, that I must have received a notification to download it, as if all Android devices get all Android updates. In the end, I used a friend's device, paired it to my bank account, and transferred all the money somewhere else. How secure.