Free apps cannot be added to your app library, and buying software in archaic 20th century methods of shopping while AFK can no longer be done, because the buy button is greyed out and disabled. For example, this could be a piece of software with a 30-day full-featured trial, and once the. Some links in the article may not be viewable as you are using an AdBlocker. Now, we can't even buy/purchase/add Windows Store Apps to our account without actually being in the Store app itself, or on the computer using Windows. This entails understanding the program itself, in its unmodified form. On the other hand with the relatively small Windows Phone market, developers can not afford to lose even a small segment to pirates.ĭo our readers think piracy is hurting or harming the OS? Let us know below.
The news is a reminder that even a closed ecosystem can not prevent piracy, and of course there is an argument to be made that some level of piracy can even strengthen an ecosystem (see Windows and Android).Ĭertainly I think allowing Windows Phones to freely exchange music and video, not possible on WP7, has made the OS a lot more acceptable in emerging markets.
We don’t hear too much about piracy on Windows Phone, but there is in fact a thriving underground dealing in XAPs, primarily enabled by cracked Samsung handsets.Įmblematic of this is the above torrent on Piratebay for 2 GB of windows phone apps and games.