I guess my arguments are falling on deaf ears. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Shane Isbell<[email protected]> wrote: > A 50% drop in sales is huge. It's an indication that piracy may be a major > problem for Android apps. But as an individual app provider, I don't see how > you can stop piracy of your app.
OK, really. Someone who decides to download a pirate copy of an app as opposed to paying 99 euros was never intending to give you their business. There is no way a warez site is going to cause revenue to drop that dramatically, that quickly. It might be causing you to lose some sales, but it is not causing ~50% of consumers to shift from purchasing from the Android Market to using download sites exclusively. PC software has piracy problems, as does the iPhone. In fact, the majority of people that I know with smartphones have an iPhone, and out of all of them I only know one person who has not jail broken his phone - and he has jail broken it in the past as well. Anyway, I'm really getting sick of trying to bridge the gap between the developers who are complaining about low sales/high threat piracy and the people on the Android Market forums complaining that they can't buy apps on the market. The biggest issue isn't even piracy, or DRM engines, or nice looking Warez sites. It's that most people don't get to the stage of pirating apps. They try to buy an app on the Android Market, find they can't, and go back to the store to swap it for a phone that "works". The outcome is the whole Android ecosystem loses. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
