On Aug 30, 5:42 pm, sm1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> David,
> What are the recent examples of paid apps that have been copied and
> distributed illegally?
>
On of the best examples is my favorite Twitter client. They published
a premium version and minutes after the launch the .apk file was
available for download. So they might choose not to continue
development on Android if they based their business model on a paid
version.
> Is this a growing problem or is it limited to a few cases?
>
> Can existing law enforcement or lawyers be used to limit the number of
> cases in the future?
Did this help for music and video industry? And they have tons of
money too enforce the law, a Android developer might not.
>
> thanks
> serge
>
> On Aug 29, 7:55 am, david <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Anyone of you have experience with paid apps in the Android market?
> > Recent examples have been shown that paid apps can easily be copied
> > and distributed even with copy protection enabled in the market. Is
> > there anything Google has built into the Android OS to prevent this?
> > Is there any SDK call to check wheter for an app has been paid for
> > (check against the market application?) or anything else, so a
> > developer can have the same secure environment like on the iPhone?
> > Otherwise this is a big problem for the whole Android ecosphere as we
> > won't see many high quality apps popping up.
>
> > /David
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