[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

[Marcin M.]

Well, indeed it's better than the hour is spent to provide better apps for
Sailfish than to do some freaky copy-protection, finally broken by some
talented hacker (If iOS is jailbroken, WAT in Win7 broken, why should
Jolla's library avoid that?)

... Or to spend this hour to bring xwayland! ;)

--
Marcin


2013/11/8 Attila Csipa <qt at csipa.in.rs>

> On 07-Nov-13 17:31, Michal Jerz wrote:
>
>> Well, as Ronni wrote, using their copy-protection library is going to be
>> entirely OPTIONAL, so its existence should not hurt anyone....
>>
>
> That will depend on what it actually does, and what kind of support it
> requires from the system. At the most benign level it can just try to
> figure out if the IMEI is authorized and such, at worst, it can interfere
> with system activities (how you guarantee a chain of trust if your
> copy-protection library relies on calls to user-replaceable parts of the
> system?).
>
>
>  Rather than studying any researches, I'd prefer to simply give it a try
>> myself and see if it makes any difference for me. After two years with the
>>
>
> That's also a way of research :)
>
>
>  Nokia Store preventing use of any protection, I'd really like to at least
>> TRY and see what difference it can make.
>>
>
> Certainly, I'm not implying what other developers must or must not do -
> everyone is free to make their own business decisions, good or bad (and
> since I still didn't earn a million $ by selling apps, I will not claim to
> be a monetization guru :). I'm just baffled at just how hellbent some
> people are on reducing the number of pirated copies without fully
> understanding the cost of development and dynamics of app-stores. And every
> hour a Jolla engineer (or 3rd party dev) spends devising or employing a
> copy-protection scheme is an hour that he's not putting towards other parts
> of the platform or his/her apps.
>
>
>  One thing I know for sure is that in 2013, after all those who used to
>> crack
>> and release Symbian 'warez' got disinterested in the dying platform, sales
>> of my Symbian applications actually noticeably INCREASED, despite the
>> rapidly shrinking user base. So there must be some correlation between
>> these
>> things...
>>
>
> Again, without proper context and research, the origin of that correlation
> might not be obvious (Was legally buying it in the beginning hard or an
> obstacle? Did Nokia introduce carrier billing or better payment coverage in
> some markets along the way?). The same applies here. I agree there is an
> inflection point, where the platform is too small for real piracy to exist,
> but then the question is - who wants to remain a small player? And if you
> get big, that scheme will not help you anyway, so why make it?
>
> Best regards,
> Attila Csipa
>
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