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Most POSes are running custom Android ROMs which are super locked down for PCI compliance nowadays; the only apps that are allowed are those provided by the POS company, basically.
The POS industry is lucky that custom ROMs are exempt from the upcoming Google lockdowns or they like other embedded device industries running on Android would be screwed.....
Here's the wiki page for PCI compliance, but the jist is in order for a POS to be able to process payment cards, it has to be crazy locked down for actually valid security purposes.
I haven't worked in retail since 2015 so it may have changed but our system ran on Windows XP and was basically a visual basic interface. It was always amusing when it crashed to desktop and do you remembered how old it's underlying OS is.
Occasionally it would crash and default to Armenians or something so you just had to press buttons from memory to change the language back into English.
Locally(Malaysia), I still see small and medium sized business using window based POS that able to support all sort of payment, especially in service industry. But g