How about this for an idea: Instead of the remote kill switch, how about remote ad-enabling switch? Or maybe, remote revert-to-lite-version switch???
On Apr 14, 9:19 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 11:52 am, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Always a concern. For which that "Spam" feature can be used, I > suppose. Which of course is far from ideal, but better than nothing. I > guess, the motto here would be: find the end of the line of all the > requested improvements of Android Market... Can you see it? It's way > back there... No, Sir, like *way* back there... > > Lastly, the pop-up display does not have to, or should, make any > mention of piracy. A dev's desire to not be hassled with support for > older versions that are floating around is one good reason. The > resulting request (in housebroken terms, of course) to update the app > through the dev's channels of choice - what coincidence - should be > enough of a disguise here, and I am sure with some creativity, some > other good reasons can be found. Remember these apps go for like, > what, $2.99 or less, a pop? This (cough) is not the kind of money > you'd see supporting, say older versions of [fill in RDBMS of choice], > because your enterprise customers are slow migrating to your new > release... -- 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.
