Comments on: iPhone App Store Hacked: No DRM!

By: James

James — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:51:36 +0000

Agree with JG. If a developer releases a good app and it gets noticed, people are going to cough up the relatively small cost to download it. Piracy will always be an issue but the low cost of apps shouldn’t encourage pirating apps as much as say a game or DVD.

By: Reality

Reality — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:00:33 +0000

Hey Jailbreak or Bust,
I think cars are too expensive and not worth there value. I think I will hack yours and use it myself, saving me money. Only the feeble minded or people who don’t value their money would say otherwise.

If you can’t pay 99 cents for an app that’s good or bad, your the one that’s feeble minded and not thinking straight.

By: Jailbreak or bust

Jailbreak or bust — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:02:51 +0000

I got a $40 gift card when I got my iphone, so of course I went and blew it all on apps. Not one of those apps were worth even the basic 99 cent price tag, ESPECIALLY any of the games. I fully support the act of jailbreaking an iPod to get free apps. Only the feeble minded or people who don’t value their money would say otherwise.

Why just today I went and bought a copy of “Amnesia: the dark decent” for $10. Yet, you spent that same $10 on super monkey balls? Smart.

By: Blasius

Blasius — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:28:12 +0000

“This seems like a non-issue to me, hacked apps need a jailbroken iphone in order to run. What percentage of iPhones are jailbroken? I would be surprised if it was more than 1 or 2 percent. ”

Actually, I’ve seen polls about this on about three different website and about 78% of all iDevices have been jailbroken. Only about 6% of the ones that werent were because they were scared. The other 16% didnt know what jailbreaking was.

By: historic fossil

historic fossil — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:41:38 +0000

I feel developers should remember and watch the behavior of the music industry.

When pirating was going at full throttle, the music sales and record company profits were the best they ever had.

Then they started cracking down on people and made examples out of some small, poor individuals who didn’t have the skill, resources or finances to fight back. Every body saw this and found the over-the-top bullying of mega-corp vs. single-mother-of three to be quite repugnant.

The results: the pirating has gone deeper underground, many consumers are offended with the industry, musicians have come out about how they get no profit from the record sales AND SALES & PROFITS HAVE GONE DOWN THE TOILET!

The music industry product has become ****. We will never see talent like Elvis, The Beetles, The Rolling Stones….etc. The manufactured bands don’t have any soul. These talented musicians do not develop the angst, the heart or the life experiences that lead into classic songs that will inspire audiences for generations.

Michael Jackson may have been the last of the giants. And the consumer public knows this. They demonstrate the values with their purchasing power.

Meanwhile, the industry marketing masters don’t understand why I have stopped buying, or pirating, music anymore.

Profits go away with the quality of the product.

Developers beware, history can repeat itself.

P.S. When I had pirated music, it was to sample and try out the album. If it was good, I would buy the music. If not, the MP3s were deleted.

P.P.S. The last music purchase I made? Were vinyl records of Van Halen at the used record shop (about 2 years ago). CDs and MP3s just don’t sound the same. The last app I bought? this morning.