Like many iPhone developers, Ben Chatelain is frustrated to see cracked versions of his project, Full Screen Web Browser, showing up online. Following the usability suggestions of John Gruber, Ben has chosen to do something about it. The latest version of his app has detection capabilities for pirated instances, and reports the UUID of the device back to his server. After 10 days of running a cracked version, users are presented with a “trial over” dialog box and given the option to buy up to the legitimate version.
That ‘s an excerpt from TUAW ‘s recent post on Ben Chatelain ‘s efforts to discourage “ and convert “ users with ‘cracked ‘ copies of his iPhone app. This seems a pretty good approach to me.
TUAW points out that some users may object to any app ‘phoning home ‘ with any sort of ‘personally identifiable ‘ data “ but Ben says his implementation of this antipiracy measure *only* pings back from cracked versions.
It will be interesting to see how effective this method proves in converting users. Hopefully it will work well and perhaps catch on with more developers
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