You are making right comments. Yes, in some very rear cases user without internet connection will not have possibility to activate product. But let's look into reality - what channel used for legal application installing?! Right answer is - Android Market that download application over internet. (Alternative channels, like: slideme.org also use internet...)
So without internet it's impossible to install applications of the phone. Let's calculate pros and cons: - activation requires internet (minus); - but without internet application not possible to find and install (plus); - activation does not require internet all the time, only once (plus); - backup/restore logic does not broke activated application (plus, but highly depends on implementation) - user should survive one minute of activation fear (minus) - but activation long time ago become a part of our life (plus) etc... activation as is does not make any difference for end user... And of course required smart implementation of activation logic... stupid one will not survive. On Nov 16, 11:22 pm, strazzere <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 16, 4:04 pm, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I highly doubt that anyone would do that for $1 application. Effort > > not worth trying. > > Maybe a 99 cent application wouldn't be worth reversing, but we aren't > talking about one application. We're talking about applications that > specifically are accessing a blacklist now too. Sure it's a few apps > now, but if this caught on - why wouldn't people look into it? > > What happens on a fail? I'm assuming the developer gets to decide... > Are you going to restrict a user from using your application, formerly > which might did not require internet connection, to now have internet > connection constantly? If the site is unreachable are you going to > block the user from using their purchased product? > > It just seems like a nice idea in theory, though in practice it would > appear you might hurt many legitimate customers. -- 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
