Piracy in the App Store (from 360iDev)
A Brief Overview:
A few months after the launch of the App Store, developers began reporting unexplained spikes in their new user numbers, spikes that were completely irreconcilable with iTunes Connect reporting on new downloads. After investigating, it unfortunately became clear that this wasn’t an error in our reporting, but instead was due to application piracy.
The Myth of the Open Source Business Model
This morning, Jeff Atwood wrote a blog post about software piracy entitled My
Software Is Being Pirated where he talks about how companies can deal with the
fact that the piracy rate among their users could be as high as 90%. He writes