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Damn, that means Google sees Organic maps as a threat. It is crazy how good it is.
This means I want to install organic maps now
Got it installed! Thank you!
That’s one of the reasons why we need to breaking up google. They use gapps and play store to control the android ecosystem.
Google’s anticompetitive practices are at it again.
On the bright side I had never heard of this app. So thanks I’m checking it out now
Basically Osmand mini. Simple and not much settings but good enough defaults.
It’s probably the best of the free and open source maps. I use it almost every day.
It is also apparently a threat to Google. If Google fears it then it must be solid. (Spoiler: it is as I use it)
I’m getting “download failed” on f-droid.
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Does Google not currently have an anti trust lawsuit going on? Fine addition of them abusing their quasi monopoly position. But maybe they want to use this as argument “look people could just get it from fdroid” or something like that. IANAL
BTW does removal mean phones with enabled google protect will ask users to uninstall the app? I have this “feature” disabled.
play protect sucks, ye. I think I might just go for f-droid only for my next phone.
I’ll lose tiktok, but whatever
Fuck tiktok
There’s the Aurora Store on F-Droid that lets you install apps from Google’s store without giving any data/account info to Google. Works pretty well!
evil
I literally downloaded this two days ago. Wtf
Get Organic Maps from F-Droid. Start taking power away from Google. It’s in your own hands.
Next up: StreetComplete.
Fuck pokemon go all my homies play streetcomplete
I recently started using it and screw you all for recommending it. My walks take like twice as long now.
Ok. Downloaded. Let’s see how it goes.
Have fun!
That’s funny I just installed it yesterday but decided to use f-droid instead. Going to be my default going forward.
Solution: don’t install it from the Google Play Store. F-Droid and Obtainium exist.
Yeah let’s just hand wave away significant friction to a reputable FLOSS project lol
This is a workaround for tech savvy people, but pretty far from the point here. This move is bad for the community and bad for the app. Play Store brings orders of magnitude more exposure and users
Most non-tech savy people aren’t even looking for an alternative map app. They are just going to use the one that comes pre packaged on their phone.
I don’t know how many people found it through the Play Store, but for a point of comparison, OSMand has over 10 million downloads. That’s 10 million people who are interested enough to seek out and install it, despite not being tech savvy enough to get it from F-Droid, etc.
Android Auto won’t work that way.
I tried f-droid just now but organic maps gives me a 404 when trying to install. Was it removed from there too?
Edit: It looks like it was an issue on my end. F-droid was stuck on v1.17 and couldn’t update so I reinstalled it, and now I received a hundred update notifications from all my apps, and was able to install the organic maps app.
It’s back up now. It seems to have been a mistake to block it.
This is not the first time the play store removes an app for absolutely no reason and then refuses to explain why it did so, and it won’t be the last. Usually they don’t just reinstate the app for no reason.
I don’t think it was a mistake, but even if it was, they do not have proper communications to resolve such mistakes.
Well, at least now Google won’t try to update the app I installed through F-Droid.
Someone still uses Google software? Poor souls…
