Please try to imagine the percentage of people you know around you that would be capable of: * enabling debug to install apps remotely * getting the necessary BitTorrent programs * using them to download this file * extract that apps and install them to the phone
I can't imagine that is even close to 2% or 3%. Most of your customers want nice and easy access to the app through the Market and will pay for it. I think most of them also believe that this is the only way to get apps and they don't know what an APK is. Focus on your customers, there's nothing you can about crap like this. Make sure their experience with you is much, much better than through piracy; it's pretty hard to screw this up but the music and movie industries manage to do it. Try not to make the same mistake. The people downloading these torrents won't pay you anyway even if you took it away from them. Concentrate on the people that will. On May 5, 4:54 am, Marcin Orlowski <webnet.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 May 2011 09:34, mot12 <martin.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - Limit the lifetime of your app so the app requires updates every few > > > months (this is a tricky one, you are likely to lose a lot of users if > > you don't alert them well in in advance that an update is required). > > My experience with this approach is that it's better to use two "deadlines". > One is "soft expiration" where you pops someting (dialog/notification etc) > that there's update and user have to update as the current version is no > longer supported and "hard expiration" (perfectly at lest 2 or 3 weeks > later than "soft") which enforces upgrade by simply halting current version. > And make sure you do not push that too frequent. Each version shall > live no less than 1,5-2 months or your (l)users will rant. > > Regards, > Marcin Orlowski > > *Tray Agenda <http://bit.ly/trayagenda>* - keep you daily schedule handy... > *Date In Tray* <http://bit.ly/dateintraypro> - current date at glance... > WebnetMobile on *Facebook <http://webnetmobile.com/fb/>* and > *Twitter<http://webnetmobile.com/twitter/> > * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
