Guitar Hero on Android in January!!!

[constellanation]

I'd like to see you figure out a way to pirate GasBot.

Ummm so hey gasbot, I'm working on this app... its about locating nearbye cheap.... uh candy... yeah candy and I like the way yours works... can I maybe have your sourcecode to mess around with? Oh and if you could just host it on rapidshare? Cool thanks

[GasBot]

Ummm so hey gasbot, I'm working on this app... its about locating nearbye cheap.... uh candy... yeah candy and I like the way yours works... can I maybe have your sourcecode to mess around with? Oh and if you could just host it on rapidshare? Cool thanks

Haha, not gonna happen.

[MobileMan]

That wouldnt "squash" piracy at all.

Look at the iphone, all app store purchases are tied to an itunes account, yet it's ridiculously easy to get pirated copies of anything and everything from the app store.

Gotta love prracy. LOL. Now I cant wait to see what kind of games apps will be out in the future. Before we know it Jan 09 will be here.

[ickyfehmleh]

Yeah, because you see big time companies developing apps for Android right now. If companies started developing paid apps for the platform and then everyone pirated them, then they wouldn't make apps for the platform anymore. Trust me, you think you can bypass it, but if they know what they're doing, they'll make sure it's unpirateable.

I'd like to see you figure out a way to pirate GasBot.

Ah but games are different than utility applications like GasBot: games really don't need to talk to a central server to get data since they're pretty much self contained (for those not following because I don't want to sound condescending to a fellow developer: once you install a game, it's installed and has no reason to phone home for it to work). I wonder how Google will deter pirates in this case. Will they end up using some sort of digital key or encryption? Will pay applications require users to sign up for accounts somewhere to ensure they've been legitimately purchased? Will Google simply store this data on their end, tied to your Gmail account?

I believe the iPhone uses some sort of signed key/certificate for paid applications and that's how some h4x0r-type person released a utility to allow jailbroken iPhones to run AppStore apps without paying. Google ought to be looking at this carefully and learning from Apple's "mistakes". Locking down the phone and preventing root access certainly fits into this, even if the 'jailbreak' was really a gaping security hole in disguise.

I don't see anything obvious in the current Android API to determine whether or not an application has been purchased and I have a hard time believing Google would require applications to invent their own security to determine their legitimacy. That being said, I'm sure Google will come up with some easy solution that, hopefully, will at the very least heavily deter pirates.

[Stats555]

Thank god i was waiting for this!!! Games in market really suck, light years behind apps in the market.

[jasont]

Almost the end of Jan, shouldn't be long now

[JKill09]

^Yea, so where is it ?

[Dixie]

Oh geez.... I will have to get 12 spare batteries to carry with me on trips if Hubby and the boys figure out that I have this on my phone............ hahaha