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"Well, fuck you. There’s always going to be some kid who can find a way around your next big DRM scheme. There’s always going to be a teenager who places zero value on their own time, and will gladly spend days just to know that, in the end, they fucked you back just a little bit. It’s a losing battle for you, and it’s insane to even participate."
You search the internet for pirate copies of apps, then copy them onto your (regular, unrooted, non-“jailbroken”) device, and launch them. The system is designed for piracy from the ground up. OK, I admit, I couldn't read past this sentence. This is so much complete and total bullshit that I closed the tab in disgust. The ability to sideload apps on a non-rooted, non-jailbroken device is exactly what any and every de…
So, to paraphrase: "Guy doesn't agree with me on something fundamental. Shame on him."
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So, to paraphrase: "Guy doesn't agree with me on something fundamental. Shame on him."
I don't think that's what he said at all. I read it as a criticism of a bad premise. Do you mean to imply that there is so such thing?
"A price-tag of one dollar is passive smoking. You’re killing people around you, for your own short-term benefit." They're killing their competition _and_ benefitting from it? Those poor fools!
Actually, it's quite a good analogy. No one benefits from this strategy in the final analysis because a race to the bottom makes all developers paupers. Smoking a cigarette relieves the pains of addiction (delivers short-term profit), kills you in the long term (destroys your business model), and imperils the health of the people around you (makes iOS and Android less desirable platforms). That said, I disagree with…
There are definitely barriers to making a living selling apps, but blaming them on your fellow victims is utterly foolish.
You search the internet for pirate copies of apps, then copy them onto your (regular, unrooted, non-“jailbroken”) device, and launch them. The system is designed for piracy from the ground up. OK, I admit, I couldn't read past this sentence. This is so much complete and total bullshit that I closed the tab in disgust. The ability to sideload apps on a non-rooted, non-jailbroken device is exactly what any and every de…
So, to paraphrase: "Guy doesn't agree with me on something fundamental. Shame on him."
How about, "People who want to violate my property rights by crippling the digital devices I own (and/or refusing to let me own such open devices in the first place) because they'd make a little more money that way are morally wrong."
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So, to paraphrase: "Guy doesn't agree with me on something fundamental. Shame on him."
Congrats, you've summed up every debate ever. I guess we can shut down this website, huh? How about, "People who want to violate my property rights by crippling the digital devices I own (and/or refusing to let me own such open devices in the first place) because they'd make a little more money that way are morally wrong ."
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Dead Trigger was a bad example - personally I'm not wild about mixing purchase and in-app purchase at all - but in the overall discussion others stated similar experiences, in one case a developer quoting piracy rates of 90% on an app which I believe had no in-app purchases (sorry, can't find the link now). Football Manager 2012 handheld will be one I'll watch with interest. The publishers Sports Interactive have sai…
That sounds like a much better example. Being an existing franchise, it should avoid what I believe to be the primary problem for both Android and iOS: app discovery. I remember an anecdote about a 90% piracy rate. It turns out that the game was prominently listed on a popular pirate board, but was buried deeply on the app store. Combine that with a tendency for pirates to install huge numbers of games that they'll n…
I completely agree with you.
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I don't think that's what he said at all. I read it as a criticism of a bad premise. Do you mean to imply that there is so such thing?
He wrote "it's downright shameful for this guy to run around promoting the idea". There is a level of badness at which ideas become shameful to promote, but that's a pretty high bar to clear, and I'm pretty sure electronic brands that don't actually kill people can't clear it at all.
In your subjective view, which has exactly zero more, or less, validity here than mine. This feels like you're wasting time, arguing for the sake of being pedantic, or just because you like arguing.
Is there some fundamental point you're trying to make here? Because if there is, it doesn't look like anyone else is getting it.
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He wrote "it's downright shameful for this guy to run around promoting the idea". There is a level of badness at which ideas become shameful to promote, but that's a pretty high bar to clear, and I'm pretty sure electronic brands that don't actually kill people can't clear it at all.
There is a level of badness at which ideas become shameful to promote, but that's a pretty high bar to clear In your subjective view, which has exactly zero more, or less, validity here than mine. This feels like you're wasting time, arguing for the sake of being pedantic, or just because you like arguing. Is there some fundamental point you're trying to make here? Because if there is, it doesn't look like anyone els…