[Nextgrid]

Out of curiosity, what was the product? Was it targeted at home/personal users or business users? I would expect piracy to be less of a problem for products targeted at business use, where occasional piracy by home users is less of a problem as they usually wouldn't be able to afford/justify paying for the software anyway (piracy might help in these cases - training people that will then become paying users in the future).

[wswope]

Looks to be a DVR remote app aimed at home consumers. Was going to call BS on the post originally, but the app was from the 2008/2009 era, which makes way more sense (nowhere near enough people are jailbroken for this to happen nowadays). Kinda BM to leave out that detail IMO.

[native_samples]

Why is it problematic (BM?) to leave out that detail? It's irrelevant to the argument TechDirt is making, which is a general one.

All the date means is that when the iPhone platform had poorly implemented DRM, piracy rates could approach nearly 100% for some types of app. Since then Apple improved their DRM and nowadays iOS devs don't worry about piracy so much. Seems like a disproof of TechDirt's thesis.

[stutsmansoft]

Correct, that was the app. It did reasonably well and tanked to near-nothing when DRM was removed, and to full nothing when TiVo finally released their own.