“Both app stores were built on tracking users to sell their data, thereby giving Apple and Google power over how citizens receive services from their own governments.”
Austria’s public health insurers require an app that lives only on Apple’s and Google’s stores. That means agreeing to two American companies’ terms to reach your own government. Mobifree runs on an EU Horizon Europe grant and promises a full alternative stack. Regulation and grants don’t ship software, and F-Droid knows it.