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This is so offensive. I get piracy is an issue, but how did they ever think this would be a legitimate solution? Honestly, just let the quality of your app spe

• mistercow 14y ago
  From what I understand, piracy on iOS isn't an issue. The only place where it's really significant is China. And there are two points to keep in mind there: 1. Stopping piracy of a single app in China is very unlikely to result in increased sales of that app. 2. There's no Twitter in China.
  • smackfu 14y ago
    Well, what makes something an issue? There is certainly piracy on iOS... people jailbreak their phones and then pass around ipa files on the standard piracy sites. I'd say it is similar to piracy on game consoles. It exists but you need to do something unusual to enable it, so most people don't do it.
    • mistercow 14y ago
      Right. It happens, but that's not the same as being an issue. In terms of a developer efficiently using their time, chasing after the <5% of your users who pirated your app, and who in all likelihood only heard of your app because it was one of the ones they found on a piracy site, is not a good strategy.
• gurkendoktor 14y ago
  I suspect that piracy works along the line of "product quality" / "ease of pirating a product". $50 apps and most eBooks have it a lot harder than $1 songs, even if their quality relative to their genre is the same.