I love this idea. I'd make it a deadmans switch though. Good users see a mild amount of advertising, mainly for your own other products. If the app fails to call home often enough, turn ads on on every page. Since your ad code will probably be spread across every page, server call, etc. it would be way too much trouble for a hacker to remove.
You would want to have a small amount of adds cached client side too, especially for an application that is still useful without network access. You can count the pageviews yourself. Actually now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense for your DRM and your Advertising packages to be linked. Are there any advertising companies on this board that also have a DRM solution? -MK On Apr 21, 3:22 am, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- 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.
