Comments on: Apple iOS Developers Found to be in better position than Android due to app Piracy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:16:00 +0000

In my experience jailbreaking iphones, ipods and ipads, there has always been a hardcore, dedicated group of individuals devoted to stealing iOS apps. That’s one of the first questions I get asked by any Apple product owner “Dude, how do I get apps and songs for free?” There are a ton of iOS options out there. No point in stealing most Android apps since almost all of them have free ad-supported versions anyway.

By: AppBrewer

AppBrewer — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:41:00 +0000

As an app developer, I did not experience piracy until a week ago. My sales and install stats were pretty much the same for my paid app until a week ago. Now, over the past week, I tend to see 2-3 sales per day, but app install stats are increasing by 10-20 per day. I even had a 2 day spike of around 100 installs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

In app purchase translates to less revenue for devs in both iOS an Android. They’re good for luring users into free games but not if you wan’t to sell at 2.99 -1.49 or -.99 Of course there are exceptions but generally this is a bad move. There is a reason why e-books store try to evade in app billing in iOS… $ bill yo!

for the countries that don’t deal with Google wallet there is Amazon.

As an Android Dev I can say that 90% of the time it makes more sense to build towards Android 2.3 with special features added with the 3.2 apis
Most apps I use do it this way so they keep working on Gingerbread while adding Honeycomb enhancements

Last time I checked, provided you jailbraked your device, you could download almost all paid iOS apps on fake appstore… iPirates make piracy way easier for their peers this way

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

for the countries that don’t deal with Google wallet there is Amazon.

Last time I checked, provided you jailbraked your device, you could download almost all paid iOS apps on fake appstore… iPirates make piracy way easier for their peers this way

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

for the countries that don’t deal with Google wallet there is Amazon.

Last time I checked, provided you jailbraked your device, you could download almost all paid iOS apps on fake appstore… iPirates make piracy way easier for their peers this way

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

for the countries that don’t deal with Google wallet there is Amazon.

Last time I checked, provided you jailbraked your device, you could download almost all paid iOS apps on fake appstore… iPirates make piracy way easier for their peers this way

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:02:00 +0000

People buy less paid apps on android because there are less paid apps to buy, which seems simple enough.

It seems to me that most devs prefer to give the app away, with money earned through ad revenue (which, of course, is missing from this survey).

I remember reading that angry birds gets $1 million through ad revenue on android alone per month. Remember, that’s ad revenue which is sustained indefinitely until the user stops playing the app. This is in contrast to a one off payment for the app on the iPhone.

i would suggest that there is potential to earn greater money from Android, given the right app…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:13:00 +0000

That’s why devs don’t make good apps, no money

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:03:00 +0000

Piracy is also a major cause of malwarez….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:01:00 +0000

I’ll scew that, because I knw 40 Android devs that say piracy is not a problem.

By: Robert Norris Hills

Robert Norris Hills — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:02:00 +0000

I’m pmsl at the fact anyone would give credence to any study done by a company that’s currently suing Google for not allowing android devices to run its software. They are clearly un-biased.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:31:00 +0000

The difference being any schmuck can download an apk from 4shared but jailbreak takes cautious effort.. (currently no jailbreak the current iPad2 firmware.)

Most people do not jailbreak but almost all android buyers do..

Think about. Most cooked roms are pirated code from various vendors cobbled together..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Google does offer some verification tools for apps (allowing them to call into an authentication server) but hackers can crack the app and disable it.

I’d also be curious to know who the 75 developers chosen were, HOW they were chosen, and the questions asked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:01:00 +0000

Not a new issue at all and brought up by developers since the early days of the Android Market. Piracy happens on iOS as well, but nobody talks about cracked .ipa files on jailbroken iOS devices since it’s easier to point to the seemingly inherent piracy that Android has. That said, I do believe that Google should do something about Android .apk piracy to protect their interests. I also believe that it’s overblown that companies make more or less money selling applications. Of these 75 app vendors, what is their product? If they are ad based and move a few hundred thousand downloads, they stand to make money. If they are selling a .99 horribly made game then I don’t doubt they will lose money. Look to the Angry Birds model. There is an article that they are making boatloads of cash on Android giving the app away and selling ad space.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0000

i can’t believe this ,I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prices at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HDTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for. I use http://xub.me/ab