It’s not a good news for the iPhone app developers at all!!! They are probably loosing in millions… The trend in iPhone and other iOS app piracy is still on.
More than a year back, Medialets, a market analytics firm focused in to the Smartphone industry, estimated that almost 20% of the apps available in the App Store are pirated. Most of these apps were actually the cracked versions of the paid apps.
The trend is continuing. Dissident, the starter of AppTrackr, the hacked app store has recently estimated that almost 4% of the total iOS devices already in use are using. Most of the Apple devices that use pirated apps are to be the iPhones. Correspondent of the App Advice has recently found out the fact in a chat with them.
It has revealed that Installous, the application which is used to download the cracked or hacked applications, is being used by almost 4 million iPhone users.
The iPhone app developers believes that app piracy is mainly the result of the high cost of the apps. And in most of the cases the users don’t have any option to use a trial version. However Apple is trying a lot to stop the piracy. Recently they have launched a separate section for the free, low end versions of the highly paid apps. But guess that could not stop the piracy yet.
