I published my first (and apparently last) Android application Wednesday 10pm. By now Google Checkout reports 203 orders (29 of those refunded).
My app also includes the Furry analytic library. So far it reports 377 new users. A discrepancy of almost a 50% of users which only led me to believe its piracy related. Is it really so easy to pirate Android applications sold through the Android Market even though they have a "copy protection" feature? This is unbelievable. My app is also available for the iPhone since November, have sold almost 40.000 copies with a piracy % of less that 5%. What the hell Google? If this continues I'd have no choice but remove the app from the Android Market since the app heavily relies on a server back-end which costs me bandwidth and resources. Why on earth can't you implement a simple callback when the purchase is done with the device UID so we can check for this when the app runs? This would solve everything. Pirates would have to crack the app itself to disable this protection but its infinitely harder than just copy the apk file and upload it to rapidshare. I hope I can get an answer from a Google engineer. Regards, Xavier -- 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
