The point is that the point of entry to Android phones is much cheaper than the iPhone, and it has a wider range of people with different income level. this to point out that iPhone users are more well off, meaning less piracy.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Mobile OSs Android piracy is so bad, you cant even charge for apps anymore...
- Thread starter Technarchy
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
The point is that the point of entry to Android phones is much cheaper than the iPhone, and it has a wider range of people with different income level. this to point out that iPhone users are more well off, meaning less piracy.
ermmm
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=167794
cant you have it billed to your carrier???
or get citizensbank.ca prepaid VISA................ :
Hmmmmmmmm
or do you just want an "excuse" to justify your piracy?
LOL
Billing through carrier doesnt work with Canadian carriers... plus i dont have a plan, since i'm usually always in a place with wifi, and when theres emergency, i buy the 2 dollar 10 mb pay as you go plan. Also, even if it did support, i still have to acquire a plan, which requires my parents approval, since they are the 'owner' of this number(although i pay my own bill).
Anyways, its not an excuse, i was so desperate trying to buy an app once that i contacted their developer that i will pay them via paypal or other form of payment for their app. Cant even do that. I have to admit, yes i downloaded a couple pirated apps to use, but then i realized that i didnt like any of it so far and deleted them all. Not an excuse, but i try not to.
I wont be buying apps anytime soon so i dont feel the need. Interesting option though.
That's one option & is Google Passport available in CA? If so, link a card to it & buy your apps through it.
Statistics don't lie. There is a good reason why there are more free apps on the android platform. Don't deny it. It is because of piracy. And yes apple has piracy too, but it takes much more work for average users to pirate on iphone compared to android since android is more "open".
A perfect example is angry birds space 99 cents on iOS. Android it is free. Can someone give me any other explanation for why it is free? Besides of the obvius one I mentioned.
I find it funny when people point out blatant problems with the android ecosystem they are labeled apple fanboys. Android can't be weaker in some areas then iOS? That seems like a fanboy thought.
A perfect example is angry birds space 99 cents on iOS. Android it is free. Can someone give me any other explanation for why it is free? Besides of the obvius one I mentioned.
I find it funny when people point out blatant problems with the android ecosystem they are labeled apple fanboys. Android can't be weaker in some areas then iOS? That seems like a fanboy thought.
This title is misleading. The only reason I clicked was because of the "you can't even charge for apps" part. I thought it was a new rule or something. Anyway, the internet is full of piracy.
My 42 year old mom asked me how to pirate stuff after a coworker told her about getting free CDs. I showed her how to pirate the proper way, go to play.google.com and search for the CD. Then press buy and pay like you should.
There will always be users that are trying to get things for free. And at this point the security to protect developers isn't there. Will it be there in the future? Who knows. I hope so.
My 42 year old mom asked me how to pirate stuff after a coworker told her about getting free CDs. I showed her how to pirate the proper way, go to play.google.com and search for the CD. Then press buy and pay like you should.
There will always be users that are trying to get things for free. And at this point the security to protect developers isn't there. Will it be there in the future? Who knows. I hope so.
Large scale piracy exists because of a poor business model. If people can get your stuff for nothing with almost no effort, they will. Moral condemnations are a waste of time, since if you can't actually protect property rights in a particular market, that market will usually fail. Lecturing pirates makes about as much sense as trying to persuade people to stop looking at pornography.
Apple understood this from the get go. If you make it moderately difficult for the average user to pirate apps and keep the app prices low, most folks who actually have any money will find it too much of an effort to pirate apps and will buy them instead (people who don't understand this either have no money or too much time or both).
If Google can't sort this out, iOS will get all the good apps, and Android users will have to suffice with adware infested versions. Google needs to sort this out or developers will abandon or degrade their platform.
I also think it's because of Apple's polices of accepting apps too. Plenty of apps for Android that Apple would never accept in the app store for multiple reasons.
Again, I think there is more factors to it than just piracy. Marketing is one. Some versions of Angry Birds cost and they do charge for an ad free version of the regular Angry Birds. At least that's how it was back when I tried the EVO. Also, the majority of Android phones are on the lower end(cheaper) side vs the top of the line phones always talked about in these forums. I guess they realize that and it's easier to hook millions in when it's free.
I agree, especially with the first several posts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...vbS5yb3Zpby5hbmdyeWJpcmRzc3BhY2UucHJlbWl1bSJd
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5yb3Zpby5hbmdyeWJpcmRzc3BhY2VIRCJd
those are the paid versions of Angry Birds. Some of the Angry Birds once did cost $.99 but became free over time.
You're right, if an app is free on Android, it must be due to piracy since you get charged for the iOS version. Stats don't lie? I was under the assumption that most statistics posted is BS but I guess I was wrong.
Well this whole thing reeks of publicity.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/2/3214685/dead-trigger-free-ios
All jail breakers are pirates eh? What a stupid thing to say.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/2/3214685/dead-trigger-free-ios
All jail breakers are pirates eh? What a stupid thing to say.
Anyone who believes the premise is daft anyhow. "Hey, I spent hundreds of hours on this, but since there's so much piracy, heff it, I'm giving it away". Yeah right.
Isn't funny though that after all the crying about "Fandroids" invading the iOS forums, now that a seperate forum has been made for Mac/Apple users to discuss alternatives, a few people feel the need to come in here to spread hate/FUD about alternative platforms ? What's good for the goose...
Damnt, aren't I an idiot buying dead trigger on Android.
I admit it's easier to pirate software on Android, however if you are going through all that work to save 1 dollar (price I paid for dead trigger) then you will pirate on any platform.
Google appname.apk from the phone then download and install.
I admit it's easier to pirate software on Android, however if you are going through all that work to save 1 dollar (price I paid for dead trigger) then you will pirate on any platform.
Google appname.apk from the phone then download and install.
I think this new board has filtered out those of us that want to discuss alternatives between those that want to purely troll.
Those that wanted to simply wind up iPhone/iPad users now have no avenue to do so, so they've likely scurried away and those of us left that do want to have sensible chat can here.
The mods are dumping the troll posts to the wasteland which is good too:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1415763/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1414247/
WIN/WIN IMO.
And how does this hurt the average android user that doesn't pirate apps? I'm really not that upset getting an app for free on Android.
Some may argue that there's ads. Root and install ad blocker, perfectly legal. Now I have an ad free, free version of an identical app that's on iOS.
Looking at some of the posts on here, you really do see why Apple fans have a reputation of being idiots. There's piracy on both platforms, it's easy to do for either. While Android might be easier to get pirated apps on initially, iOS is worse for in-app purchases: look at iAP cracker and iAPFree. Developers can get screwed either way.
One developer of a popular app stated that they were experiencing a higher piracy rate on IOS than on Android.
It's a problem on both platforms I suppose.
When you only dwell on the failure stories, it's easy to think that things are so bleak, but for every failure there's a success story.
There was an indie developer that created an app to find your parked car, and he ended up making $1000s a month for a few weeks work.
There was an indie developer that created an app to find your parked car, and he ended up making $1000s a month for a few weeks work.
I think this new board has filtered out those of us that want to discuss alternatives between those that want to purely troll.
WIN/WIN IMO.
Except a few users that seem to be here only to bash Android and any innovations/problems it might encounter. I think this thread is a glaring example of that. The OP is not here for objective discussion, he's here to bash.
Same for the multi-user thread for Android, it got derailed fierce by 1 poster insisting the feature was useless and refused to move on to something else, just staying there and making sure everyone knew he didn't like it and it wasn't useful to him (and 75% of replies in the thread are now replies to him instead of discussing the feature).
It's sad that these are probably the same people who were whining of "Android folks" in the iOS/iPhone/iPad forums, that "trolls don't have anything better to do than hang out on Macrumors" and now that Apple users that also use alternatives have a place to discuss their stuff, these users come in and stir the pot.
Leaves to wonder who really was the "troll" in all of this to begin with.