If your looking at it from this perspective, then maybe you shouldn't continue developing?
Unless your developing a program that is SaaS where data is kept primarily on a server, your /not/ going to keep your program from being pirated. I don't agree with people who are pirating apps, but I also don't believe people who have pirate most of their application would be buying them if there was some magical protection available. The applications I had published have been pirated countless times, I actually find no reviews for my applications, just hotlinks to rapidshare and mediafire. Though that hasn't stopped me from getting my money worth from the applications. Honestly with the stuff your posting and the amount of protection your wanting - I feel you need to just not release your applications. Have people come directly to you, purchase a tailor-made applications with a million identifiers for who bought it and give it to them. Then when it leaks out you know who to blame. Or, proceed like ever other developer so far, release it, make money, "lose" money and figure out there are always kids who won't pay a dime for things... Cause it's "cool" to do it. Besides, the tougher you make your protection (no matter how worthless or cheap the app is) the more interesting your making it for a reverse engineering to pull it apart. On Nov 17, 10:35 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Disagree. The problem with Android Market is that it doesn't even > attempt to solve the piracy issue. I agree that 100% protection is > impossible but devs right now have 0% protection. > > Don't believe me? Search for any popular Android app on google - you > will find as many links to pirated apk's for that app as you will find > genuine review / discussion / marketing links etc. So an average phone > user will find cracked copies if that's the road they want to go down. > > Of course devs would rather be writing new features but with reports > of 4 pirated copies to 1 legitimate copy turning out to be true, this > does dampen one's enthusiasm to write updates just to give them out > straight away to the freeloading pirates. -- 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
