Not hard to find these links. Just Google "jail break Android" and you'll find it.
On Apr 1, 1:05 pm, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry Ed, I'm not going to hand it out to anyone else outside of Google. > > I handed it to Sean & Incognito so they could offer independent verification > of it, but beyond that I have no wish to circulate details of a piracy site. > > Al. > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed > Sent: 01 April 2009 17:46 > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: A worrying statistic ... > > Hi Al, > > I would like the link as well. My take on the piracy issue is probably > somewhat uninformed, but I'll venture two points: > > 1. I am surprised that people would go through the trouble of pirating a > $.99 app, or even a $5.99 app. My guess is that these are younger folks that > think it is cool to pirate software at any price point. > These "KOOL HACKERZ" are not good target markets, but it is important to > note that they exist on every platform (computers and phones, iPhone > included) anyway. > > 2. Given that piracy is common to every platform, it is not that useful to > focus on Android's piracy problems without considering the larger context. > That is, if the standard percentage of pirated apps for a given platform is > 30% (for example), you would have to expect the same percentage in the > Android Market as well. I would be concerned if someone could show that > piracy is much more rampant for Android than other platforms. Given the > wealth of pirated games and apps available for all the other phones, I'm not > sure this is the case. > > --Ed > > On Apr 1, 9:41 am, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > > Checked the link and it looks bad. I guess and this will make it even > harder to make money out of one's app. > > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:27 AM, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's already happened, I'll send you the link off-list so you can verify > it. > > > Al. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sean Hodges" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:12 PM > > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: A worrying statistic ... > > > My fear is that people will get frustrated enough to get together and > > "jail break" the Android market so that they can get hold of the apps > > that they want... > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Streets Of Boston > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I fear that the payment options, the lack thereof, is a huge factor in > > the low sales. > > I would gladly pay a few more percentage points of my revenue if > > customers could be billed through the phonebill. > > I would love to see a pay-pal payment option as well. > > I don't mind if the i, as the developer, can only use google-checkout, > > but the customers should have more options. > > > If this won't change, i hope other android markets run by cellphone > > providers will open up. > > > On Apr 1, 9:48 am, cnordvik <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 3:37 pm, Evil Mushroom Lord <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I was of course speaking tongue in cheek. The Splatting has had 250 > > people buy it over 3 weeks--- but I put up a lite version of it... > > and almost overnight 7000 people tried it. Why didn't that many try > > the first version? (not necessarily buy--- but just try) > > > That was my point also. We've had >30000 downloads for the trial and > > 50 have tried the paid version. Don't think any marketing will change > > the fact that at the moment the 1 million Android users are reluctant > > to buy anything in the market. Maybe we have 1 million "I want it all > > for free" users and the iPhone got all the "I'll buy anything" > > users? :-) Or the buying process is such a hassle that most users > > don't want to go through it even if they can cancel the purchase... > > > -Christer- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
