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by Spherical 4947 days ago
They aim to crack China and their reasoning is that the big players haven't got a foothold yet due to being a young-ish market.

At the same time they are looking to developers to create native apps for it and hardly anyone is going to develop for a phone if their primary market is China where 99.9% people steal.
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goldfeld 4947 days ago
"China where 99.9% people steal."

That's a pretty sweeping statement not to be backed by a source with a figure even remotely resembling 99.9%.

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Spherical 4947 days ago
Source: A friend IOS App collecting analytics data. Sure, I could make it up but that is the data he got back.
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Volpe 4947 days ago
Right and 99.9% of chinese run iOS... A more likely answer is you are just Racist.
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Spherical 4946 days ago
I should have been more clear, so let me correct that for you, of 99.9% of those that owned IOS and that downloaded his app - they did not pay for it. For the record it got 4.5 stars with over 800 reviews so it not by all means crap. That is the figure I was given. Given we were talking about mobile, I was using that as my guide for a platform not yet on the market.

China has some of the highest piracy rates in the world—with a piracy rate of 96% in PC software, 93% in motion pictures, and 85% in records and music. [“China Fever” F. Fang 2007, International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) report, Feb. 18. 2010 ]

http://www.china-mike.com/facts-about-china/economy-investme...

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