Ripdev – the folks who bring you Installer and Kate for the jailbreak arena (and others) – are launching a new ‘service’ aimed at IPhone developers who are worried about piracy and ‘cracking’ of their iPhone apps.
The service is called Kali Anti-Piracy – and it’s being launched just now perhaps partly as a result of recent launches of automated ‘cracking’ programs for App Store apps, Ripdev refers to these on their product page for the new service:
Evidently, the piracy rate currently is quite high due to the fact that there are numerous automatic “cracking” products that allow any application purchased from the AppStore to be extracted and distributed in unprotected form. Sadly, the whole process takes under 3 minutes per product What does this mean to you as a developer? Obviously, you lose money.
The Kali Anti-Piracy service promises to protect iPhone applications …
With Kali Anti-Piracy your application is being wrapped in the additional layer of protection engineered by experts in Mac OS X and iPhone OS architectures, giving potential hackers much harder time in achieving the precious “crack”. Moreover, we are constantly monitoring the current trends and news in the underground hacker communities to make sure Kali AP stays on top of the “competition”.
And the developers reckon it is iPhone SDK compliant:
Kali Anti-Piracy uses only documented and allowed calls, therefore, it is fully compliant with the Apple iPhone SDK. Products protected with Kali AP are passing the Apple approval process and are currently successfully selling in the AppStore.
The Ripdev page for the service does not offer much detail on how the protection service works. Presumably more is available as developers go through the sign-up process.
There’s a pricing overview (in a .pdf download) at the Ripdev site. There are two types of charges for the service – a setup fee of $100 if your app is $9.99 or less, or $300 if it is over $9.99; and then ongoing quarterly fees on a sliding scale according to numbers sold.
See the Ripdev Kali Anti-Piracy page HERE for all the details.
I’d love to hear what any iPhone developers out there think of this …
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