[SailfishDevel] Jolla app store and copyright protection. Just make app store easier than piracy

[Marcin M.]

Absolutely agree!

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Marcin


2013/11/9 Artem Marchenko <artem.marchenko at gmail.com>

> Yeah, this discussion went too far, but then if I remain silent maybe
> point of view I don't like will influence Jolla sailors too much :)
>
> So my two cents:
> ========
> IMHO, the main point preventing piracy in Apple App Store is it's easy of
> use. It's just many times easier to search and tap "buy for $1.95", than it
> is to search torrents for the same stuff.
> ========
> And that is hopefully the main razor-sharp goal sailors are working on.
> Going from unpacking device to buying my app should take less than a minute
> and a dozen of taps + maybe one time account creation.
>
> People who don't have money to buy will pirate anyway, they won't buy many
> apps anyway, so why optimize for then? All these stats that MANY% of
> Android apps are pirated doesn't mean at all that these apps would have
> been bought if copy protection was impenetrable.
>
> And yes, identifying users/accounts inapp is still useful, but first of
> all for easy in-app purchasing and *possibly* giving users discount codes
> for this or that purchase. Hopefully both things will work on the system
> level.
>
>
> Cheers and clear seas to everybody!
> Artem.
>
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> Artem Marchenko
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