Mange velger å «jailbreake» sin iPhone som et svar på Apples rigide kontroll. Det går utover iPhone-utviklere.
Hey
Im the developer for Whack em All I noticed youre being given credit for cracking Whack em All and making it generally available for free.
We (just my wife and I) havent even made enough money off of this to pay for the iPhone we had to buy to develop it on Just yesterday 40 times more people got your version of the app than bought it off the app store!
Ive asked some of the sites if they would be willing to take your version of the app offline so that we can make enough money on the app to cover our costs.
Im curious though why youre doing this? Would it help if our game were free and we had banner ads?
Thanks!
James
James and Connie Bossert
fairladymedia.com
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As many iPhone and iPod touch owners have discovered, Apples iTunes App Store has many flaws which render it useless to the common user. Apple has chosen to allow a multitude of ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications through its strict screening process, nearly all written by mediocre programmers with a dream of getting rich quick. Many of these programmers game the reviews system, misrepresent their application in the description, and generally try to swindle the honest buyer. Applications generally do not cost much, but small fees add up. The iPhone/iPod community has wasted so much money on these programs, an epidemic has taken hold where people have simply stopped buying apps they arent certain of so they dont find themselves purchasing yet another waste of a program.
Apple could quite easily solve this problem by implementing a sort of trial period for each application, but they do not. The user is forced to buy blindly without ever getting to try the application first. Appulo.us is a collection of links to allow iPhone and iPod touch users the ability to try out full, unlimited versions of device software before making the decision to buy it.
You cannot accuse me for those 40 people because all of them would have NOT purchased your application anyway. And as said above i only want to give public the change to try out your game before spending their money. I at first did not crack any games but after i purchased a few games which were not as good as the description let me believe i wanted to help others not to waste their money on something which even has no return policy. To solve this problem either talk to Apple to allow trials or as you said, you can release your game on Cydia with ads.
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