Google should not be allowed to abuse its duopoly position in this way. I recommend EU citizens to report every case they are (potentially) affected by to the EU DMA team.
Someone should make a complaint about ePD violation in relation to those. I doubt it's "strictly necessary" for those applications to read that information (if they even fulfill the "at distance" requirement).
But to me big tech succeeded also lobbying the EU like they already did in the US, in fact they violate multiple EU rules (GDPR, etc.) without facing any consequence, and when they try to announce they would do something at the other side of the ocean they treat us that they will double or triple tariffs so...
iOS being so difficult to jailbreak means that most apps don't have any verification at all. Even most DRM doesn't even try to verify that the device isn't jailbroken in order to access the highest resolutions or whatever. But if we ever add a first-party option for the device to be modified, then we start running into the Android situation where every app has some invasive root/tamper detection thing. Some apps already have anti-debugging things, but the situation on iOS could be far, far worse.
(I was reading recently about the SEP's behavior after a memory authentication failure -- it completely stops accepting requests until the processor is reset -- so I thought that applied to trusted boot violations as well. Seems not.)
I suppose that also explains why every time I open Settings, the Apple Pay section is missing for a moment before it shows up; the OS is apparently able to function without it. Interesting bit of trivia.