this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2024
1602 points (99.3% liked)

Open Source

31133 readers
287 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Mastodon Post.

Apk Link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk

Note: If you don't want to deal with stuff like this, I recommend you download and use it from F-Droid client or Accrescent AppStore.

Update: The app returned to the App Store.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hopium question: Can Google be sued for this as anti-competitive behavior and fined for "lost revenue"?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In theory yes. In practice or will require enormous resources to build a case against the army of layers that Google and the other giants can afford. I believe only the government now is big enough to do it, with the antitrust law.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which I'm pretty sure they're already gunning for Google, so this might be more evidence for their case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hope so. I’d imagine their lawyers will see this with joy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The answer to "can X be sued for Y?" is always yes, you can sue anyone for anything, this doesn't say anything about whether you'll succeed.

[–] zecg 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can install any apk on your phone (even unrooted) and there's alternative stores such as f-droid, so why?