It's possible I don't fully understand your technique, but I think it will likely cost more sales then it will generate. If it gets a significant following of apps it will be cracked (a simple solution I can see would be to simply reroute web requests for the black list to a pirates site which will return an empty list). If it doesn't get cracked you are going to lose potential sales from: 1. People who bought a used black listed phone. 2. People who have a blacklisted phone (because they pirated one piece of software) but they wish to pay for another. 3. People who find the idea of buying an app that may break on them later (blacklist site outage, because their phone got blacklisted, etc.) to be repulsive.
On Nov 16, 2:45 pm, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Our company has developed security layer for Android applications. We > will publish it later as a separate library that other developers > could include in their applications. Please > visithttp://www.artfulbits.com/Android/antipiracy.aspxfor more info and > subscribe if you're interested in updates. > > On Nov 16, 10:36 pm, "[email protected]" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So looking at it a different way ... > > > Are there any popular android apps that are not suffering from massive > > piracy? > > > I had a quick hunt around and could see that MyBackup Pro asks for a > > Google Checkout number and Copilot also requires a code on starting > > up. > > > Maybe there's something we can all learn by seeing how other app > > developers are dealing with this issue. > > > Does anyone know how effective these measures are? Has anyone seen any > > other techniques that have worked. > > > Its getting very tiring reading how pirates feel they have some right > > to steal apps from hard-working devs. Would love to teach those guys a > > lesson ... -- 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
