Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
Why not just use cash? Untraceable, nearly ubiquitous acceptance, are they just too lazy to go to the bank?
A lot of places don’t take cash.
Well luckily that hasn’t been my experience. Only time I ever saw that was at the hight of the pandemic our local computer shop didn’t.
in some countries it’s fallen out of fashion. in others, people are too lazy to bring a slim wallet with themselves and select the bills and coins every time they want to spend