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Tangential, but the flawed "android rampant piracy" article made an appearance here again. It's flawed because as an app developer, you don't have a way to tel
by Karunamon 11y ago
Tangential, but the flawed "android rampant piracy" article made an appearance here again.
It's flawed because as an app developer, you don't have a way to tell if the app hitting your servers is legitimate or not. Just counting:
(sold copies) - (unique hits on our server) = pirated copies
..is not even close to accuracy.
What about reinstalls? What about developers/tinkerers who are probably flattening their devices on a regular basis? What about one person with multiple devices?
- nemothekid 11y ago>What about reinstalls? What about developers/tinkerers who are probably flattening their devices on a regular basis? IIRC Google gives you access to all that information in the Google Play dashboard, and for my apps, "reinstalls"/device upgrades were very rare.
- Karunamon 11y agoPresumably that feature can only work if you redownload the app from the Play store. If you're restoring a backup or using any other method, it won't get counted.