I never said it it would (the 50k would have been sales). My concern is that I made a game and although it does not mean it is giving me the revenue of 50000 apps sold it is giving some russian pirate guy the revenue of 50000 downloads. My work 1 year hard work is feeding a guy that probably spent an hour to crack the game. My point is piracy is real and although SOPA and PIPA are bad we need something else to fight it.

Well.. I report links to file share sites with DMCA notices so they take the links down. I'm just blocking the pirates from making money with my game. This is how it works... the guy cracks a game and put on a file share site. He then earns from money files that are downloaded many times. Basically the guy spends 30 minutes to crack my game and earn money from my year long work. Also... I have charts showing selling reports by date. I can see a decrease after the game was made available online. And finally... I'm pretty sure I can go around this issue like a lot of people do. But this does not mean people should be able to share my work freely. I mean... if you could go not noticed would it be okay to steal food from a supermarket?

Piracy is a real problem. I find it interesting that people want to kill PIPA and SOPA, and not change it to allow protection against piracy while still allowing people freedom to use the web. I have a game on the Android market. It has sold around 1000 copies... (it cost just 1 dollar so it's not a matter of cost). Some russian guy cracked my game and by looking on download counters I can tell the game was already illegaly downloaded more than 50000 times. The only thing I can currently do is report every link I found to file share sites... I tried that for a week and noticed that I wasn't being able to work anymore... I wasn't doing anything else but sending DMCA notices. Therefore, I find the current law very flawed. I woudn't care if there was some improved SOPA that would deal with file share sites for instance (Let's face it... they are 95% of the time used for piracy anyway)

It is a hardware issue (although the article says it otherwise). New versions have minimum memory specs for instance. It would be like trying to run Windows 7 on a 10 year old machine.

Every new releases have minimum requirements. These requirements end up limiting which devices can be updated or not. ICS for instance will require 256MB memory and some fancy harware acceleration. It's usually wise to respect this although you will probably be able to update your device using some custom ROM (Just don't get surprised when app Xyz fail to run on your gingerbread cyanogen mod on your 4 year old device).

We could obviously discuss whether this is good or not... as a developer I like this actually. The android fragmentation can be reduced by this minimum specs... you can release your software knowing that you will have a minimum ammount of memory to run and deal with.

Android didn't change much gui wise (aside from cosmetic changes)...
Technically, the first pic is almost exactly like the second, but with the icons removed. I would post a picture of my Galaxy S2 looking almost the same as the first picture if I wasn't so lazy.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rapidshare+fu ll+album I found a 50 cents album in a few clicks from this query. ops... sorry... Think they will now sue slashdot also.