iCombat App Store Pirates

May 13, 2009

The iCombat blog features an interesting statistics and analysis of pirated versions of iCombat:

iCombat was cracked and posted to Twitter before even propagating through all of Apple’s servers (I’d say within 30 minutes from going live). Their adoption on the front end was much quicker than the paying user. Nothing beats free…

Coming to the following conclusions:

  • Piracy is still not that big of a problem when talking about the apps with larger download volumes
  • Blocking pirates is not worth it unless you can push conversion by giving them a lite style version

Read the whole story at My Experience Getting Owned by App Store Pirates | iCombat.

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