My philosophy is that someone who downloads an album for free is no better than the person that walks into a store and steals a CD. Same goes for apps. Only, most people need to park a truck in front of the store their stealing from.
Piracy is bad. But also, who's to say on the major system there is no pirating? no one. because it happens. but guess what, the system manufacturer overcomes these and (like the ps3) releases updates that stop it. Tapulous has popups that reigster that your a pirate! And im sure apple is trying to stop this, we just need time. But hey, some people think its right.
Well if you want to look at it from that perspective stealing a Lady Gogo CD from the mall is still not the same thing as pickpocketing the change donated to the guy standing outside the mall panhandling and playing a guitar.
No, the App Store will NOT be killed by piracy. http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/2010/01/05/appstore-reaches-3-billion-downloads/
Yes yes, just like how musicians no longer make music, movie companies no longer make movies, game companies no longer make games (there is piracy on major consoles as well as pc, so they are equivalent in this matter). So yes, as you can plainly see by the evidence around you, iPhone gaming will SURELY DIE.
75% are pirated? i dont know where that number came from lol. so that means there are probably 8-12% are jailbroken. of that say 12%, how many of those download cracked app store apps? Im jailbroken and i dont. So maybe 5-10% do that, so its more like a loss of 5-10% of sales. I agree that developers need to focus on making quality games and keep constant updates to increase sales. Also the making more ingame purchases might eliminate some pirating too.
i jailbroke and i just was not all that for me. so i restored to a regular ipod because it was ot so cool and i just thought it was boring and it wasted battery. so people piracy is stupid and wrong. if u wanna go to jail fine by me but im stayin legal
Well, it´s easy to answer this question. Indies will apparently always decide to develop for the iDevice platform, simply because they just have to meet the hardware requirements for XCode, pay 99$ a year and are then allowed to supply as many apps they want in the whole year. I really can´t listen to the outcry against Apple anymore. Nintendo for example doesn´t accept home offices as secure locations, so 90% of the independant devs developing for the iDevices wouldn´t get the SDK for the DS or the Wii anyway. Maybe in common-law, but for sure not in civil law jurisdictions. Piracy is not even the proper legal term for copyright infringement. Stealing is something completely different alltogether (in civil law jurisdictions).
Developers have to pay $99 a year to put games onto the Appstore? I never knew that. And how did you know, anyhow?
Heck - there are over 40 million iDevices sold! 10% are 4 million devices... 5% pirates means 2 million pirates...
There are a number of cases of piracy of the iPhone games and other application but the real ones would always be real and would have some hidden benefits, like the security, but the pirated ones wouldn't have any of these features. Moreover, iPhone would require even bigger and better reason to be out of the market after such instant popularity.
how many itouch and iphone devices in total? i hope developers do not feel dishearten by the piracy stats. i am sure most developers had made good profits.
Do you really think that there are 38 million gamers? Gamers are the minority. Most people use the iPhone for surfing, phone, iPod and messaging purposes! Even Doodle Jump, the game that sold more copies than most of the other games is just close to 2 million sales, not 38 millions... Count in, that most of these customers only might have bought it because everyone says it's cool - but these are not the gamers as we are. Flight Control hit the 2 million copies sold mark. Another game mostly every iDevice gamer has. Get real. And let me correct: it's already more than 250 million devices sold.
Pirating is NO PROBLEM. People who pirate wouldn't buy. False. My friend used to buy apps, and now he pirates them. Will pirating wreck the app store? No. It hasn't, and it's been going on for a while. People are making money off the app store, just not as much as they would've.
