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
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!
Solution: don’t install it from the Google Play Store. F-Droid and Obtainium exist.
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.
true. adding https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps to Obtainium installs latest version of 27th July without issues.
On the bright side I had never heard of this app. So thanks I’m checking it out now
It’s probably the best of the free and open source maps. I use it almost every day.
This means I want to install organic maps now.
Update: I like it, it got us home quicker than google yesterday. And the route was less boring
Damn, that means Google sees Organic maps as a threat. It is crazy how good it is.
