Yesterday, despite my interjection, I witnessed a crime beneath my eyes. One of my family members was downloading a pirated game on android.
I've seen innocent people, harmless people, good people who resort to stealing their software. It's just sad.
I never understood the kiddies who could afford an iPhone but couldn't afford $1 apps. Guess they'll flock to Android and crush that platforms app programmers.
Good news for developers.
How many thousands of dollars and man-hours were ruined by people like your relative? It's no better than people related to a mugger on the news talking about what a good boy the perp is.
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I've used installous but only one games. I'm not going to buy a $6.99 game and find out I hate it. If I like it then I go to the apple store and purchase it legally. I wish apple gave you the ability to try out games and apps before purchase because the reviews people leave aren't always accurate at all.
You work at a job I suppose? Should they get to try you out before hiring you without you agreeing upon those terms? There is always a risk that an exchange of goods, services, and money will not work out. Unless both sides agree to it, that doesn't mean you should have to work for free and hiring managers should have the luxury of just "trying out" tons of people, not paying them, and getting essentially free slave labor until they decide on someone they "like" and then even paying that person when they decide to pay them.
Because that's essentially what you're doing with developers. You're settting multiple "terms" that the other side has not agreed upon and using their goods or services anyway. It's not fair, moral, or ethical at all.
The bottom line really is the developer can set whatever terms they like. You aren't forced to play the game so if you don't like the terms just don't attempt to play the game at all. It's as simple as that. It's not like its health care, water, gas, or anything essential for life. It's a video game! If you don't agree with the terms of the offering and use it anyway that's exhibiting poor personal moral character. You can call it piracy, theft, stealing, rape, or whatever name you want to call it. It still puts you on the same bottom of the barrel moral level of a common thief, selfish liar, and cheat.
P.S. - I'm not referring to any particular person. Just the idea as quoted which gets thrown around often by kids giving excuses on why they do it. Also, people do bad moral things and show a lack of character many times throughout their lives. But the difference between good morals and bad morals is recognizing when you do wrong and striving to correct it rather than making excuses for your intent to continue it.
P.P.S - If this post kinda stings, good because that means you're likely a generally good person, can recognize when you're doing something you shouldn't, and still have the ability to correct it.
Hackulous...you will not be missed.
Pay the developers for the apps you use.
And the difference between someone robbing your house and pirating digital content is that you still have the digital content afterwards. If someone stole my TV I have to go buy a new TV whereas if I make software and someone pirates it, 3 seconds later someone may buy it and I still made money; Now I have 2 happy people who will spread my software via word of mouth.
Piracy makes me mad. I'm glad these guys shut down.
No, because if you didn't pirate the app, in many cases, you would have bought it. This doesn't apply as much to Mac apps, but it does a lot to iOS apps. I understand the potential advantage of having your app stolen. People who wouldn't have bought it anyway pirate it and increase publicity. This happens more with Photoshop than $1-$5 iOS apps.
No, because if you didn't pirate the app, in many cases, you would have bought it. This doesn't apply as much to Mac apps, but it does a lot to iOS apps. I understand the potential advantage of having your app stolen. People who wouldn't have bought it anyway pirate it and increase publicity. This happens more with Photoshop than $1-$5 iOS apps.
Still as allways the function of jailbreaking is to add greater customization & to plug holes in the iOS feature set whether it was tethering, multitasking or unlocking. The holes still exist, how ever fewer there may be. A couple glaring ones still exist: You can't change the default browser or mail client, Safari's newer rendering engine not available to 3rd party apps, no settings toggles in notification center.I don't really see the point in jailbreaking anymore. The iPhones can be basically used on any carrier anymore without the need to jailbreak to unlock it. We can change our own wallpapers now and can multitask. Just wish there were a legitimate way to "hide" apps that are never used, AKA half the Apple ones that can't be deleted. iOS just keeps adding more and more features that everybody wants. Only thing I miss is my tether and a few tweeks and SBSettings.
Of course i don't. But i was making an example of all your preachers on here, telling the world how things should be. Look if you don't agree with something, thats fine. But to sit here and condem people as immoral, unethical, horrendous individuals for a choice they made or make, well you know the saying "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone..."
I do not need a bunch of self-righteous people telling me what is right and wrong, what i can and cannot do, just like i don't need a fairy-tail (called religion aka the magic man in the sky) to tell me what is right and wrong.
EDIT - And i have not seen one response that stated "I dont agree but thats your decision to make, you have to live by the consequences of your own actions." That would have been an appropriate, respected response.
Perhaps you should change your approach then? I always report a problem with an app that does not meet my expectations and Apple promptly refunds my PayPal account.
Not that there were many (if any) moral uses for Installous, but the idea of trying an app before you buy it would be a great feature for the App Store. Like a one hour or one day trial period.
Yes, many developers have free versions, but many don't. Just an idea