Because access to mainstream proprietary mobile apps is becoming increasingly necessary to function in modern society, and people know that the iOS versions are a lost cause.

You're right, of course. And notably in the case of Android apps, they often also depend on Play Services and therefore require agreeing to Google's ToS.

Folks: if you don't like two major tech giants having so much power, push back against requiring apps like that when you see it. This is how they get so much power. (I'm especially worried about government apps requiring Android with Play Services or iOS.)

> Why do people always want to run all their Android apps?! Why not iOS and Windows apps too??

Yeah, that'd be great! Unfortunately Darling isn't running GUI apps yet even for desktop apps, but the start is there. Windows apps are frequently compiled for x86, so we'd need to plug together WINE+qemu, but it should work. Windows apps also aren't designed for mobile like Android, but in many cases I'd bet it can be made to work.

Sadly often it's necessary for various proprietary apps like banking, government apps etc

Unfortunately, this discounts apps folks depend on made by a company that they need, and that company won't build an app like that.

One example could be like a banking app.

One that really annoyed me was my school forced Duo Mobile on us. Duo Mobile uses HOTP, but they do not officially support third party 2FA.

I was lucky some folks already reverse engineered the protocol so I could use a third party 2FA app.

> Why do people always want to run all their Android apps?

Android already has a complete set of phone-ready apps available.

> Why not iOS and Windows apps too??

We already have Wine for running Windows apps.