Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire
by skinnymuch on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:05PM
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No one really jailbreaks for cracked apps. There are many small reasons to jailbreak. Most apps are paid via in app purchases that can’t be cracked. Very few apps are paid and popular enough to be cracked and not crash upon attempting to use. It is something that may have been true a decade ago. The cliche needs to stop ever since in app purchases took over most spending.
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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire
by wokwokwok on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:35PM
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That’s because of in-app purchases, which create terrible crippled naggy software.
Sadly, this will accelerate the ecosystem away from tools like procreate and affinity into “each brush is $1”.
You might be right, but I’m personally sad to see this playing out in a way that makes it worse.
Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire
by skinnymuch on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:17AM
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Especially because how big was piracy ever on iOS? It would be a fraction of jailbreakers. Who were always a significant minority of iOS users. So we’re talking under 10% of users who use at least one cracked app at the peak. Most likely. Likely less and def less for people using multiple pirated apps regularly. 5% piracy rate is still not helpful or good to some developers, but that’s not going to do much at all to the bottom line.
So yeah unfortunate. Both the high price of yearly or monthly subscriptions and the specific in app purchases for things like brushes.