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Re:Fear of Apple by cozzyd on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @10:20PM (#9260907)
That sounds highly disingenuous. F-Droid appears to have over 8 million downloads[0]. Amazon's store is probably well patronized too (and they seem to have good deals on paid apps). I'm sure there's some piracy, but I don't think it's that prevalent (at least not in the US). Either way, as a user, I'd rather be on a platform that is open enough that piracy is possible.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/stats/total...

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Re:Fear of Apple by clarky07 on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @10:34PM (#9260946)
>I'm sure there's some piracy, but I don't think it's that prevalant

ha. that's a good one. I've had apps on both iOS and Android with < 10% of the installs being legit.

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Re:Fear of Apple by cozzyd on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @11:20PM (#9261088)
How many of those were in markets you could actually sell in? (i.e. where Google Play is available)
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