Android app store criticism: Piracy practically promoted by design

Scottish app developer Matt Gemmell has
written a lengthy blog post slamming
Google ( GOOG) for setting up Android in a
way that makes app piracy insanely easy. Specifically, he says that Android’s open architecture has made it easy for users to sideload pirated apps on their devices with-out having to even root or“jailbreak” them first.

“You search the internet for pirate copies of
apps, then copy them onto your (regular,
unrooted, non-’jailbroken’) device, and
launch them,” Gemmell writes. “The
system is designed for piracy from the ground
up. The existence of piracy isn’t a surprise,
but rather an inevitability.”
To make things better, Gemmell says that
Google needs to lock Android down to some
extent to make it more difficult for users to
steal software. Otherwise, he says that
developer interest in the platform will start to
dwindle no matter how popular it is with users.

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Android app store criticism: Piracy practically promoted by design