[michaelmrose]

I was being kind and not disparaging the commenter. User is misrepresenting the truth.

1 out of 250 iphones is jailbroken and can even install pirated apps directly. On balance which is more likely that piracy killed his app overnight or netflix, competitors, and cable co DVRs did?

The alternative is to have us believe that nearly all his prospective users were in the 0.4% and instantly heard it on the grape vine that his app was fair game "overnight" instead of buying a $3 remote app. Does that seem even slightly credible?

It makes a better narrative than I bet my livelihood on a excellent entrant to a market that became crowded then went away.

If you do a search restricted to the time frame his product died you will note there were multiple competitors including a mobile interface m.tivo.com launched.

[stutsmansoft]

I was able to dig up the sales report.

https://imgur.com/a/xE9UG1B

[stutsmansoft]

All those factors are plausible. If I can still get sales reports I will see if I can re-identify the dropoff and look for correlation.

I will say it certainly -felt- like removing the DRM was a mistake at the time, because the cliff was dramatic and immediate.

As others have pointed out this was a product in the 2009 era, and it did eventually get replaced by a first-party app from TiVo at which point I just shut it down.