I was just curious, for those 29 who asked a refund will hou just refund the app-price or will you refund 4 GBP per single app ? Thanks in advance
On 28 feb, 10:26, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > We put Purchase Checking in at AndAppStore for exactly this kind of > reason (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/ > purchase_checking.jsp). > > Google, and particularly the Market team, seem to be very slow at > taking things on board an delivering what developers want, so I'd > suggest using the market feedback forum instead of this group because > I'm not sure if any of the Market team actually subscribe to this > group, and thus may never see your comments. > > Al. > > On Feb 27, 3:56 am, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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
