google could by just crypting and signing the binaries maybe in ten years On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Adam Ratana <[email protected]> wrote: > To add to this: > > I've seen some apps I've made get cracked and posted on various sites, but > the ones that had true appeal (imo) continue to sell regardless. Generally > the people who will download cracked versions would likely never pay in the > first place, is something many people have said that I tend to agree with. > > When my main "bread and butter" app was cracked for the first time, I saw a > huge spike in installs on flurry, and a sustained use of that version (which > I interpret to mean continued usage of a cracked version), after I had > posted some updates, but it did not have a corresponding drop in sales. > > In fact I've found that LVL can potentially be more trouble than it is > worth, in fielding complaints from customers when it's not recognizing them > as being licensed, before their trial period of 15 minutes runs out. This > can lead to some frustrating back and forth, and asking customers for > patience with things beyond our control. > > For $0.99 live wallpaper type stuff, I don't even bother with the LVL since > the sales volume is much higher and likely it's not worth handling the > support emails for LVL failing incorrectly. These tend to be cracked/posted > almost immediately, but again, those people will never buy from you anyway. > They're not your target audience, imo. > > > > On Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:28:53 PM UTC-4, Streets Of Boston wrote: >> >> Every app can be cracked and pirated. It doesn't matter how much layers of >> protection you add to your app; your app can always be cracked. If someone >> is willing to spend time to reverse engineer your app and has enough >> determination, they will succeed. >> >> If i may be so bold to say, the only apps that can't be cracked are the >> apps that are not published. >> >> Google can't really do anything about it. >> You could look into some legal action against apkcracks.net, though. >> However, i'm doubtful it would have much effect (apkcracks is not the only >> one out there). >> >> On Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:04:16 PM UTC-4, Giuseppe wrote: >>> >>> In our app we use Proguard and License system from Google. >>> >>> Our app and other thousand of apps are published on this web >>> site http://apkcracks.net >>> >>> Can Google explain what else we must do to protect our night, Sunday and >>> holiday's job ? >>> >>> Giuseppe > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
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