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by gdeglin 4640 days ago
Piracy is actually very high on iOS, especially when it comes to paid apps: "when Wind-up Knight for iOS was a paid app, the piracy rate reportedly went 80%" (http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/07/piracy-rates-are-higher-on-...)

This is one reason why so many games are going freemium and sever backed. (Even iAP is frequently hacked unless the purchases are stored or at least verified on a server).

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That linked article is over a year old. Each iOS device and OS release since then has gotten harder and harder to jailbreak and 6.1.4 didn't even receive a jailbreak till a few days ago.

I'd bet that Android piracy is far higher than iOS is at the moment.