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over 7 years ago from Matthew Blode, Designer & Front-end Developer
ポール ウェッブ, over 7 years ago
How profitable? Y'know, because piracy.
Nathan N, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )
Piracy doesn't affect profitability.
While I'm sure parallels can be made between the film and tech industries, your link focuses on film. From what I've heard, and reading articles/blog posts by developers, one of the reasons they don't develop on Android is, in fact, piracy. That being said, I've read this literature a few years ago, and that's eons in the tech world.
I don't think my question was stupid, I was looking for updated information, preferably from people knowledgeable in the matter.
It's a logical fallacy to assume that you're losing money because people are pirating software. They were never going to buy it anyways. Developers just give that excuse as a cop out to avoid having to support both platforms. Same excuse is used to justify DRM.
Piracy happens on iOS too.
barry saunders, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )
different scale though - piracy on android is massive http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/monument-valley-developer-only-5-of-android-installs-were-paid-for/
Also worth noting comparisons with film and TV aren't quite accurate - film and TV have multiple income streams (cinema, broadcast rights, advertising rights, DVD and streaming) that software simply doesn't have.
Android is an extremely popular mobile platform, so.....popular?