Check out this article on Wired. It’s about the Apple iPhone App Store, which has apparently become the prime target of software pirates in recent months. The article’s author, Brian Chen, shares this tidbit.
Apple’s App Store offers about 25,000 paid apps, and iPhone analytics company Medialets estimates at least 5,000 have been pirated. The company also said it has tracked dozens of apps with as high as a 100-to-1 pirated-to-paid ratio.
That’s rough. Maybe if Apple didn’t charge so much for their hardware, they wouldn’t have such a big problem with people stealing their shit.
Also, everything digital is almost inevitably pirated, unless it’s so obscure that no one cares about it in the first place (or it’s free already). It’s usually because something isn’t worth the price that’s being charged, and really, for the majority of iPhone apps I’ve heard of, free would be overcharging. Of course, the iPhone is an overrated piece of shit anyways… “Oh, your phone can play an annoying little flash game? That’s cute, my laptop can run fallout 3, and I didn’t have to sell my soul to AT&T for the right to use it.”