[android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?

I had thought more people would chime in on this. Do developers really
not care?

On Android, I am really surprised about two things as a developer (and
I don't know how it is on other platforms):

1) Piracy and criminal reselling are much more of an issue than I
expected. And developers seem to adopt an attitude that this is just
part of life. I strongly disagree. This makes Android less interesting
for developers who try to make a living with creating apps (and don't
tell me that it is unreasonable to try to make a living like that).

2) Users are cheap (maybe goes together with point 1). I have a free
version of my main app (an alarm clock with all kind of bells and
whistles) that doesn't ring on Wednesdays. I actually had one user
comment that he changes the clock every Tuesday to Thursday so he
tricks my app into ringing anyways. He rather does that every week
than pay $2. To him, it is a sport to find a way not to pay me and he
feels good about having succeeded in that.

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