On Apr 16, 1:42 pm, Justin Giles <[email protected]> wrote: > There were reports, albeit old reports (November/December 2009 timeframe) > that having copy protection turned on could cause your app to not be visible > in the market on all devices.
This does continue to be the case, apparently due to Google being lax about adding new devices' "fingerprints" to the Market database. If the Market doesn't know about a given device, it won't show copy- protected apps. Currently, this seems to be the case for the HTC Desire, and possibly other handsets: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=72687bc93eba9a1b&hl=en IOW, if you turn on copy protection, users of some new devices won't see your app until Google gets around to updating the database. On the other side of the coin, copy protection does provide SOME defense against users pirating your app. It's far from perfect - for users in the know, it's pretty easy to circumvent. Real app pirates do this all the time; "copy protection" is essentially NO protection as far as they're concerned. But IMO it is sufficient to keep average, non-technical users from passing out copies to all their friends. For free apps, I don't see any advantage to copy protection. For paid apps, it's a judgement call: Enable it and lose some sales to people who can't see it on the Market, or disable it and lose some sales to people sharing your app rather than paying for it. It's a lose/lose situation, but I have no idea which is the lesser of the two evils. It's your call. String -- 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
