Although Wind-up Knight is arguably one of the most entertaining 3D games on Android, piracy has had little effect on the company’s fortunes. In fact the developer behind it says that while on Android the piracy rate is about only 12%, on iOS it’s about 15%, and when it was a paid app on iOS, the piracy rate was as high as 80%.


英文看不懂啊，谁翻译一下？

发条骑士是安卓先出的游戏吧 不是免费的吗

有下收费的Android游戏？

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君妹这是要引的果青把你生撕了啊

安德猴游戏少猴门都不玩游戏这是什么傻逼游戏ios大作那么多我们没听说过这个。

嗯。看看还有新喷点没

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看发帖人知内容

个例呗，而且我觉得楼主把喷点引到这儿挺不理智的，起码在这个论坛。呵呵吼。

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这么低？？天朝安卓盗版率有99%吗？

文曲星按爆了终于得到了一丝慰籍:D :D :D

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求本论坛果猴正版率对比分析

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高的奇怪

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不是100％吗？

君妹钓鱼贴
这货在IOS不是前段时间限免过么

91%才对

噗，祖国真长脸
Although Wind-up Knight is arguably one of the most entertaining 3D games on Android, piracy has had little effect on the company’s fortunes. In fact the developer behind it says that while on Android the piracy rate is about only 12%, on iOS it’s about 15%, and when it was a paid app on iOS, the piracy rate was as high as 80%.

That seems almost unbelievable to those of us who are constantly fed the message that the Android ecosystem is plagued by piracy because of app sideloading and of the open nature of Android, which allows for easier rooting and such. But iOS, which doesn’t have sideloading and jailbreaking is more of a pain, seems to be plagued by just as much piracy, if not by more.

There could be a good reason for that, too. On Android there are more free apps than on iOS, so piracy should be higher on iOS, all things being equal, because there’s more to pirate (more paid apps). As the Wind-up Knight developer says, the piracy of his app used to be 5 times bigger when Wind-up Knight was a paid app.

There’s also another interesting nugget from his Google+ post. He says that close to 100% of pirates are from China. That’s because in China either they really can’t afford paying for those apps, so they wouldn’t buy them anyway, or they don’t even have access to the Google Play Store, if they buy devices with some no-name forked version of Android. But the apps should still be compatible with those devices, so they pirate them.

This is a very similar issue to the malware one, where the vast majority of Android malware happens with apps that weren’t downloaded from Google Play, but from a Chinese app store or pirate sites. So my suggestion is that in the future when you’ll hear unbelievable horrifying stories about “Android piracy” or “Android malware”, things will probably be better than they make them sound, and those issues will probably be mostly originating from China.

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LS你不能这样打LZ的脸啊