Copycat alert!! Hacks that have proliferated the market!
More and more apps are ending up pirated or modified, thanks to lax security from developers and OEMs. These people know ‘How to steal a million’ in street smart ways.
Some of the paid apps are not properly validated allowing smart pranksters to download the programs without paying for them. Then these contents get modified in different forms and hues. Duplicate copies that excel the original version. Xerox needs to be complimented for their ingenuity. Copycats excel as they are always smarter.
One reason could be that the application is not affordable, that allows another affordable version appear in a different form. What we have to understand is that the web has opened up the markets, and the markets are not confined to the local store or the region. In a market that spans the universe, the numbers can be mind boggling. Surely there exists a price tag that one is willing to pay, rather than get it without any charge, but at the same time would not face the threat of an affordable duplicate version. It is not known how many applications are affected. However, the popular game ‘Angry Birds’ is one that has been pirated.As an assertion of the theory of numbers, it is alleged that as many as one million apps were downloaded from the iPad on the very first day!
Date: Sunday January 9, 2011

































