I've been selling my app on the Android market for a bit over a month now. I've had pretty decent success so far, making it into the top ten in my category.
Recently, I noticed a major discrepancy between Flurry's reported "new users" and the market's stats (what little of them Google does provide). Flurry said that I had about 4,500 new users, while market reported just over 3,000. Holy crap. Are 1/3 of my users really stealing the app? That's the only conclusion that I can come to, since my experience with Flurry has been that it is pretty accurate. Also, I have seen many pirate sites hosting my app. I used to take the time to report them, but it seems to be a waste of resources. So here's the question. Should I be celebrating the fact that my app has attained the level of "piracy worthy", and just try to ignore the fact that there are so many punk loser pricks out there that won't spare the pennies to buy it, or perhaps can't borrow mommy's credit card? Is piracy a badge of honor that I should just learn to deal with since Google won't give me the market tools to fix it? I like the concept that AndAppStore is trying to provide, offering an API that can be embedded into one's app to check for purchase at application startup. It's a bit clunky, and I'm not going to restrict myself to AndAppStore's limited reach, but it sure would be nice if Google (or someone else) could scrape together a competitive market offering. I'm really, really, really beginning to wish that someone would go out and get the $2 MM that it would take to create a competitive market offering. A market that was polished, offered real sales support, and real developer support. If you ask me, the rampant piracy of Android apps is just another indication that Android Market is in desperate need of some competition... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
