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Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by maxerickson on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:04PM (#27585138)
It's free on F-Droid because they haven't bothered to implement technical countermeasures to unpaid downloads. The app developers are still updating that content and providing the bandwidth.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by pja on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:34AM (#27589627)
The Play Store fees are effectively voluntary donations to the devs & the OpenStreetMap project. If you really want to pay nothing, they’re not going to stop you - F-Droid is right there.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by maxerickson on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:53AM (#27590087)
Yeah, that's one way to put it.

Really, F-Droid is so small it's understandable that they don't do anything about it.