I think people care, but there's not much they can do, as individuals. There should be government groups that go after outfits like AppBucket, but, face it, Android developers are not likely to be big political contributors, so the government attention is going elsewhere.
You could try to form some sort of consortium to fight this, I suppose, but likely Android developers would be like everyone else -- "Why should I pay when I can get the service for free (if everyone else pays)?" On Sep 16, 7:59 pm, mot12 <[email protected]> wrote: > I had thought more people would chime in on this. Do developers really > not care? > > On Android, I am really surprised about two things as a developer (and > I don't know how it is on other platforms): > > 1) Piracy and criminal reselling are much more of an issue than I > expected. And developers seem to adopt an attitude that this is just > part of life. I strongly disagree. This makes Android less interesting > for developers who try to make a living with creating apps (and don't > tell me that it is unreasonable to try to make a living like that). > > 2) Users are cheap (maybe goes together with point 1). I have a free > version of my main app (an alarm clock with all kind of bells and > whistles) that doesn't ring on Wednesdays. I actually had one user > comment that he changes the clock every Tuesday to Thursday so he > tricks my app into ringing anyways. He rather does that every week > than pay $2. To him, it is a sport to find a way not to pay me and he > feels good about having succeeded in that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
