Actually, the largest *contributor* to piracy was the US, but the highest piracy rates (as a percentage of total installs) were elsewhere. For example, the US has a piracy rate (on my app) of about 70%, but Australia is more like 92%. For the countries where apps may be purchased, here's the breakdown:
Country Purchases Installs Pirated Installs Piracy Rate Australia 26 321 295 92% Austria 6 13 7 54% Canada 25 96 71 74% France 23 104 81 78% Germany 38 161 123 76% Italy 4 36 32 89% Japan 467 467 0 0% Netherlands 24 98 74 76% New Zealand 4 8 4 50% Spain 7 63 56 89% Switzerland 7 21 14 67% United Kingdom 108 335 227 68% United States 2051 6105 4054 66% The US isn't the highest, but still, it's disturbing how high the rate is in ALL of these countries where purchases could be made... Dave On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, niko20 <nikolatesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Excellent analysis. Once again showing that you can't make assumptions > about a market without cold hard data to back it up. Your results > found that the largest piracy rates actually occurred in countries > where users COULD buy apps ! I guess USA is just a bunch of cheap > *sses :) > > -niko > > On Aug 26, 3:22 pm, keyeslabs <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Recently did an analysis of piracy rates by country for my app. Found > > some very interesting tidbits that I think may be of interest to > > members of this group: http://bit.ly/bSaoBe > > > Dave -- 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
