Generally agree with you there. But I would say, its worth bearing in mind, that pissing off pirates might cause more trouble than its worth. Especially since they could probably find a way to flood your app with bad ratings.
For me, I think it would be enough to show a dialog at each start up, saying "expired" with a button taking them to the Market (but allowing them to dismiss and continue using the app). This has the added advantage that a paid user will not get caught out while offline. On Apr 14, 8:46 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 9:16 am, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Essentially, he's suggesting that the remote kill switch is not a very > > good idea... Instead, he suggests a one time message to the user but > > allowing them to continue using the app. > > Technically, this is as simple as commenting out a call to > Activity.finish() after an engaged "kill switch" is being detected. > Now your users look at a nag screen (to help out with some parlance > here). > Devs will want to weight what fits their style and aspirations, user > expectations, life cycle of the app and so forth. For an app with a > relatively short life cycle for earning some half decent money, as > Craigo's app seems to be, the full-on disabling of older versions > would probably be the way to go. Rinse, repeat for the next app if > you're inclined to roll another one. > > P.S. > Reading the blog... where Saurik " basically told them that there was > no solution to piracy". That of course is not the case. There are > solutions, question is, how far a dev feels comfortable with > inconveniencing paying customers with their particular solution. > Remember Dongles? Super effective, but a PIA. Similar things can be > said about DRMed AAC's. -- 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.
