[Karunamon]

Tangential, but the flawed "android rampant piracy" article made an appearance here again.

It's flawed because as an app developer, you don't have a way to tell if the app hitting your servers is legitimate or not. Just counting:

    (sold copies) - (unique hits on our server) = pirated copies

..is not even close to accuracy.

What about reinstalls? What about developers/tinkerers who are probably flattening their devices on a regular basis? What about one person with multiple devices?

[nemothekid]

>What about reinstalls? What about developers/tinkerers who are probably flattening their devices on a regular basis?

IIRC Google gives you access to all that information in the Google Play dashboard, and for my apps, "reinstalls"/device upgrades were very rare.

[Karunamon]

Presumably that feature can only work if you redownload the app from the Play store. If you're restoring a backup or using any other method, it won't get counted.