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Developer Loses Thousands To App Store Piracy
Developer Loses Thousands To App Store Piracy
In May of 2008, Imaginuity New Media began developing their debut iPhone app Rocky Artue , a game the company hoped would be among the first to propagate into the iTunes App Store. On July 13, iPhone 3G and the iTunes App Store launched to the public in grand fashion, but Rocky Artue was ...
Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
blog.wired.com — Apple's iPhone application store has gotten as crowded as Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available... -- but one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game. Ethan Nicholas, ... (more) Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush ...
★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
daringfireball.net — Marco Arment , responding to my expectation that iPhone developers are set to begin implementing their own... anti-bootlegging measures: The ideal piracy detection system doesn’t make it immediately obvious to the crackers that their efforts have ... (more) ★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
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Roundup: Google improves mobile spreadsheets, pirates invade the App Store and more
VentureBeat — ... Pirates run rampant in Apple’s App Store — This article profiles Imagenuity New Media, which released its iPhone app Rocky Artue earlier this month, only to have a pirated version become wildly more popular than the paid app. The writer is a bit alarmist for my taste, (he refers to people who download bootlegged apps as “ass clowns” and “the unscrupulous minority”), but it’s still an interesting read. ...

A Tale Of Two iPhone Apps... And An Irrational Fear Of Piracy
Techdirt — ... But, as Terry points out, it's rather maddening that the very next post on that same site, repeats without any hint of skepticism, the complaint of another iPhone game developer that thousands of dollars were being lost to "piracy." Of course, the article seems to have no problem assuming every single unauthorized download is a lost sale, never once questioning whether those folks would have bought the game in the first place. It also fails to mention that the only way to get the unauthorized free version is to have a jailbroken iPhone -- which is a very small ...

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