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Re:Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the w... by colinplamondon on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @05:29PM (#1263423)
You could have said the same about barely wired desktop PC app piracy in 1991 as ubiquitously connected mobile device app piracy in the year 2010?
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Re:Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the w... by bad_user on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @05:58PM (#1263470)
I was thinking more about '95 when Win95 was released, but yeah.

Back then I had a PC with dozens of pirated apps and games (there were "pirates" which took orders by phone, and delivered CDs by mail).

In fact I haven't used so much pirated software as in the nineties :)

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Re:Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the w... by jarek on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @06:14PM (#1263509)
When I was younger and in a different legal jurisdiction, pirates would deliver the CDs to your house. Price was comparable with a pizza order, too.
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