1) negligible 2) eh, depends. 1) most definitely. In fact, the ADP1 phone will not receive protected apps at all unless you make some customizations to it, so protection will actually CUT OFF some of your target. 2) not at all. 3) most not protected.
Big note: being protected does NOT prevent it from being copied by a user who has root access to the device, which is just about everybody who WOULD copy it. On Dec 3, 3:24 pm, tone <[email protected]> wrote: > I did not see in the developer docs a "discussion" of the ins and outs > of whether an Android Market offering is copy-protected or not beyond > the facts a protected one > > 1. will be larger (how much? a fixed overhead?) > 2. will be one the user cannot back up. (meaning it goes away if the > phone wipes?) > > I confess to being a pretty new Android user and developer (first app > getting near being ready for the Market), and have not even considered > the implications of the two implications touched upon. > > My questions are probably: > > 1. Do users look askance at protected apps? > 2. Do apps not copy-protected receive a meaningfully greater loss to > copying (how would one know, of course)? > 3. What proportion of Market apps are in the two camps? > > I'd like any insights and rationale other devs have used in guiding > their own decisions. > > tone -- 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.
