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Even with the sandboxed Play Store, Google Pay disables NFC payments as it requires hardware attestation against Google's root keys.
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No inherent reason all that stuff can't work on an open platform. It works just fine on my Linux box with yubikeys, fido2, and smart cards. Gcloud even let's you authenticate with them only to put a medium lived token in plaintext into a sqlite file on disk.
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No inherent reason, just Visa/Mastercard requirements around host card emulation for payment cards.
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Sounds like a duopoly that needs to be broken up.
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Same, some banks even proactively fix things to work on GrapheneOS when customers ask.
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Curve pay works!
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