Featured: iOS Developer Calls Out Google, Says Android is “Broken” And “Designed For Piracy”

| July 26, 2012 | 12 Replies

    Matt Gemmell, iOS and Mac developer has used his personal blog to slam(troll) Google for Android’s open environment. The platform that is widely known for letting developers easily submit their apps to Google Play is also making it simple for pirates to steal apps. He says that one can simply remove .apk files from a rooted Android device and install them on another device, this process is known as “Side-Loading”. When talking about the open ecosystem of Android, Gemmell states that

    “It [Android] is designed for piracy from the ground up. The existence of piracy isn’t a surprise, but rather an inevitability.”

    Really Mr.Gemmell? You think there is no piracy on iOS? Have you not heard of the terms Jailbreaking and Side-Loading on iOS devices? IGNORANT!

    He also used the recent price drop of Dead Trigger as an example to show how badly the Android system is broken. He states that developers need to get paid for their hardwork because it is cash that drives the developers to write compelling apps that help smartphone users. He argues that the final solution to prevent app theft and piracy on Android is to lock down the system. He says

    “If you want a platform to be commercially viable for third-party software developers, you have to lock it down,”

    He Concludes his writing by suggesting Google to control this part of the OS because being

    “closed is better for business.”

    Mr.Gemmell, you didn’t even mention sandboxing and AAL (Android’s Application Licensing) techniques that check for a valid license before executing an app, maybe because you’re in blind defense of Apple. Instead of writing this lengthy posts you should concentrate more on writing some good code because as far as I know, you only have one (Buggy/Crappy) app on iOS and nothing on Android. Check out the complete argument here and feel free to share your thoughts with us.

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      • Dan

        There is a simple way around piracy…

        it’s called “in app purchase”. It’s tied to the google account and people who unlock stuff can activate their apps on a second device.

        If you want to sell to countries that do not have this just setup a simple code generator and let people buy access from a webpage, paypal, whatever.

        If I had an iphone or ipad myself, the first thing I would do is jailbrake it. I have jailbroken more iOS devices than android devices because it’s really easier to run a one-click jailbrake than it is in most cases to get root and superuser on an android device

        • Dilawer Soomro

          I totally agree with you. Piracy is a known issue for each successful platform be it iOS, Android or even Windows. People are going to pirate your apps no matter what you do. ;)
          But this guy is a lame Apple troll.

      • Gavin

        What a stupid apple fan boy, I absolutely hate apple with a passion ! Stop nicking other companys ideas then putting patents on them u thieves! !!!

      • Wayne Morrison

        I love that people keep using the Dead Trigger incident as an example…A developer that has a very successful game introduces another paid game for $.99 and has in app purchases. People get upset with the dev because of the IAPs and initial payment the the dev claims “rampant piracy” and drops the price. I call all sorts of bogus and wish that people would move on.

        • Dilawer Soomro

          yeah. I mean why did people NOT pirate Shadowgun that’s the expensive one right but instead they chose to pirate a $1 app…something really is fishy!!

      • Anonymous

        Apple sucks and his ass knows it

        • Dilawer Soomro

          You bet :D

      • Evil

        What a nasty folk you are. I agree with his views, I don’t want to spend hours coding and designing apps to know folk steal my work. Its easy to steal something you didn’t spend hours making. Same way if I stole your car and crashed it you would be angry and saddened.

        • Dilawer Soomro

          lolwut? You think that iOS is safe? ever heard of Cydia? No platform is safe Mr.Evil. So, his argument is invalid.

        • http://www.bhagwad.com/blog/ Bhagwad Jal Park

          Why should smartphones be different from how it is on PCs?

      • Lewis

        Why give publicity to this guy’s opinion? It certaintly isn’t going to make me jump to a locked down iPhone. Sorry, but Apple is such a gimmick and these bloggers coming out of the woodwork trying to defend ios are just laughable. Grow up and accept competition.

        • Dilawer Soomro

          +1 and Respect. :)

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