My phone can't run any of my bank's apps, is it dead too?
I appreciate your intended point was probably more specific, perhaps 'will not be a mass market success in the west', but there is a great diversity of people in the world and many of them have different requirements of a phone
we're quickly getting into "we're sorry, you can't access the site unless you verify with android/iphone" so yes, that would be essentially dead
for 99.5% potential buyers yes, it is, if it can't run bank apps (or other apps requiring GMS), personally I don't use banking apps on phone but I realize I am extreme negligible minority, which is why I said "pretty much dead", that "pretty much" covers that <0.5% users