[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-03-02 Thread MobDev
I was just curious, for those 29 who asked a refund will hou just refund the app-price or will you refund 4 GBP per single app ? Thanks in advance On 28 feb, 10:26, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: We put Purchase Checking in at AndAppStore for exactly this kind of reason

[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-28 Thread Al Sutton
We put Purchase Checking in at AndAppStore for exactly this kind of reason (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/ purchase_checking.jsp). Google, and particularly the Market team, seem to be very slow at taking things on board an delivering what developers want, so I'd suggest using the

[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-27 Thread JP
In my experience the download stats in Android Market are updated only every 24h or so. I don't keep an eye on it all the time, but this is how I saw it the last time I checked more frequently (like, months ago, actually, time flies). Give it a few more days and you'll get a better feel for

[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-27 Thread Edward Falk
If your app is talking to a server anyway, why not authenticate on that channel too? -- 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,

[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-27 Thread Carlo
Hi Xavier, I have also posted a recent question here, about if there is a way to detect a market install VS an ADB push APK, to my understanding , on a rooted phone, pushing with the forward lock option is simulating the same process as buying an application set with copy protection. I hope we

Re: [android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-27 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hi Xavier, I agree with what's been said; the stats lag reality by some time. You can pretty much count on the number of orders in your console inbox, however; they are usually up to date within a couple minutes. We face the same problem: server back-end. We have various ways to estimate the