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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.

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[–] [email protected] 249 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's Google.

I'm certain that "Common violations" = "competes with our own products".

[–] [email protected] 129 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's highly unlikely that this app even comes up on the radar insofar as competing with Google Maps.

The answer is probably more mundane - an automated system made an incorrect call. It keeps happening when it comes to these Play Store app reviews.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or some troll decided it would be funny to report it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Most likely scenario in my opinion too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Indeed. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"—or, in this case, an unaudited automated process. Now, I'm sure the fact that it competes with one of their products meant that they were in no particular hurry to address the issue, but I'm sure the original failure was process related, not anti-competitive practices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or maybe an automated system flagged it and an underpaid and overworked employee in a third world country reviewed it.

[–] gjoel 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does Google do that? Apple absolutely does it, but has Google ever done that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apple used to straight up steal the idea of existing apps. Lately it seems they favor buyout, like with dark cloud becoming weather, but it used to be that Apple would randomly swoop in and crush developers by creating a first party version of their app.

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

Ah, Sherlocking

Though at least sometimes an idea seems somewhat obvious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, Google usually buys competition and than lets it die through neglect