It would be wonderful if this would work - but I don’t see it working. If your developing an app that frequently/occasionally requested info from a server, it would be very easy to detect pirates and deal with them. If not - you're doomed to deal with not making as much money as you should. Everything can be and has been cracked. Disabling functionality when it doesn’t communicate properly with an online resource is where you really deal with piracy.
I'd say Google could be like the RIAA and sue the customers or really bad pirates, but that would only destroy the reputation for no good reason. I'm usually really optimistic about most matters, but this is a lost battle from the developer point of view. Blizzard/sc2 has the right idea but that's already cracked for campaign mode. Let Google do the passive agressive steps to stop piracy, and don't worry about piracy loss. I have spent over 3k hours developing a video game for the droid and I’m sure it will do well. If your app/game is good enough, it will make you money even if it is stolen by the pirates of the world. On Jul 28, 1:30 am, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm sure (hope?) that must be in the Android team's long term plans. Not > only in terms of paid/free licensing but also add-ons (e.g. in-app > purchasing). > > On 28 July 2010 09:12, William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > I think that's an excellent suggestion Mark. > > > I think it would be a good idea to allow for separate licnensing of > > different version of an app. > > Ie have a single app that can be licensed as 'freeware' 'fully-paid' > > etc and let the app change its behaviour based on the license that is > > returned. > > > At the moment this is achieved by having multiple applications which > > splits the comments and populates the appstore space with duplicates. > > > Just a thought. > > > All in all I think the Licensing Service is a good thing. > > > On Jul 28, 3:58 pm, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Instead of just having the Test Accounts section, it would be much better > > to > > > be able to specify responses for *individual* gmail accounts. > > > > This could then be used as a way to gift a paid app to a user (such as a > > > major beta tester). Also, when testing, you probably want to have this > > finer > > > grain of control anyway. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
