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How does pulling the app from the store benefit you?
By re-releasing it again as a free app with in-app purchase (which is very hard to pirate) You can't change a paid app to free on the Google Play store. All you can do is to pull it, and submit it again.
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Maccard = Mac user. And the attitude I've seen (especially in the OSX 86 community) is that general piracy is completely OK, but you have to buy OS X from Apple, otherwise you are doing something super-duper wrong. Then they move on to pirate Photoshop. It's a mind-bending sort of ethics, and I was curious about what the reasoning behind it was.
You know 1 person doesn't represent a community right?
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It's called a BETA for a reason :-) The 3GS was released in 2009 which is quite a long time ago in technology terms so to expect it to be able to handle a more CPU-intensive update easily is a bit silly.
Did you even read? > It's called a BETA for a reason My "upgrade" was NOT BETA. > The 3GS was released in 2009 which is quite a long time ago in technology terms so to expect it to be able to handle a more CPU-intensive update easily is a bit silly. It worked perfectly BEFORE the "upgrade" (batter life: 3-4 days!), why would it not AFTER the "upgrade"? I mean, the "upgrade" was SPECIFICALLY coded for the 3GS. If it's…
Did your device get bricked? That sucks, it's never fun. Did you take it in to get it unbricked? Everyone I know that's had hardware trouble like that has had their phone either fixed or, surprisingly, replaced. If the OS is designed to run on your phone and it doesn't, that's a defect, and you're entitled to a fix.
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Sure, no license key, except for the key used to decrypt protected binaries only on authorized hardware. There is a license "key", it's the whole computer.
I don't get why people are still whining about this in 2013. Is it really that unreasonable for an OS manufacturer to restrict the devices on which it can be installed? I write firmware for a specific known hardware platform; do I really want the pain of people using it on an Arduino? The appeal of OSX is that it just works, and works beautifully most of the time. Opening it up to all the devices dilutes the main thi…
That said, I don't find your arguments compelling; there's a difference between supporting and just not artificially preventing the software from running, and I don't see how doing the latter would make OSX stop "just working" on officially supported machines.
In fact, it's not like they don't anyway, and I don't see how have Hackintoshes diluted the experience of OSX on an Apple machine.
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By re-releasing it again as a free app with in-app purchase (which is very hard to pirate) You can't change a paid app to free on the Google Play store. All you can do is to pull it, and submit it again.
Did you find that your revenues increased when you switched to IAP?
It seems to have increased the sales for less than 10% in my case, but since I did this only a few days ago, I cannot say with confidence that it had anything to do with the switch.
But it did reduce confusion about the product itself and therefore support emails. (just the fact that there were 2 ways to get the full featured app was confusing to many - but this pro only exists because my own stupidity)
Long term I hope (it may never happen) that less people upload and therefore download pirated apks, because those versions are often very outdated, and some downloads out there are even broken because of that, causing additional support requests and bad reviews. (I rely heavily on Facebooks APIs, which change quite frequently)
If someone asked me if it was a good idea to pull an app that has been out there for a year or longer (with 100.000+ downloads) and resubmit it again I would definitely say no, because that also means that you basically start from zero again - from 1000+ downloads per day down to 10.
I don't know how the rankings in the Google Play store are created, but it seems to me that being around for a long time favors your ranking and downloads heavily.
" -[__NSCFCalendar components:fromDate:]: date cannot be nil
I mean really, what do you think that operation is supposed to mean with a nil date?
An exception has been avoided for now.
A few of these errors are going to be reported with this complaint, then further violations will simply silently do whatever random thing results from the nil. Here is the backtrace where this occurred this time (some frames may be missing due to compiler optimizations):"
Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12505833/what-kind-of-sar...
I definitely love those kind of easter eggs. There are also similar methods in the Android SDK: UserManager.isUserAGoat() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManage... Log.wtf() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html... , java.lang.Throwable) AdapterViewFlipper.fyiWillBeAdvancedByHostKThx() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Adapte...
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I don't get why people are still whining about this in 2013. Is it really that unreasonable for an OS manufacturer to restrict the devices on which it can be installed? I write firmware for a specific known hardware platform; do I really want the pain of people using it on an Arduino? The appeal of OSX is that it just works, and works beautifully most of the time. Opening it up to all the devices dilutes the main thi…
I don't get the whining either; I was just dispelling a myth. That said, I don't find your arguments compelling; there's a difference between supporting and just not artificially preventing the software from running, and I don't see how doing the latter would make OSX stop "just working" on officially supported machines. In fact, it's not like they don't anyway, and I don't see how have Hackintoshes diluted the exper…
I definitely love those kind of easter eggs. There are also similar methods in the Android SDK: UserManager.isUserAGoat() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManage... Log.wtf() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html... , java.lang.Throwable) AdapterViewFlipper.fyiWillBeAdvancedByHostKThx() link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Adapte...
There is also WTF in WebKit source. It stands for Web Template Framework, but it's funny it appears all the time in crash reports: http://google.com/search?q=wtf+webkit+crash For example: Thread 2 name: WebThread Thread 2 Crashed: 0 JavaScriptCore 0x32a97d46 WTF::StringImpl::hash() const + 42 1 JavaScriptCore 0x32a97c6a WTF::HashTable , WTF::StringHash, WTF::HashTraits , WTF::HashTraits >::lookupForWriting(WTF::Strin…