[Spirit FM] mikereidis:
From Email:

I don't want to spoil your enjoyment, but if this is the app, then you purchased an app that comes standard on other Motorola phones: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.motorola.fmradio

I know for a fact that that app is "stolen" from Motorola. I reported it to Google and Motorola, but neither of them seem to care. It's easy enough to find that exact app available for download in quite a few places.

Maybe if a few more people report that app, from an email not associated with the developer of a different FM app (me), something will happen. Then again, Google makes money for every app sold...

If you look in the URL it clearly says "com.motorola.fmradio". The person didn't even, or didn't know how, to change the app name from the original. (Actually I think it takes a lot of work to do so.)

Anyway...

The rest here wasn't in my email response:

Since this person is "getting away with it", I'm tempted to do the same myself. Heck, 99 cents or lower is no problem if there's no development work involved... But I prefer to take the high road here...

I'm trying not to give anyone the impression of "sour grapes" about an alleged "competitor". I brought this app up once before in this thread, and tried to avoid the subject, but I hate to see people paying for something that is stolen and easily downloadable elsewhere. (Even if that downloadable app is technically sort of borrowed/"stolen" too.)

If you read the reviews carefully, the best seem to be in "Asian English" or have other evidence, such as unusual usernames, that they are "fake-ish". IMO read the worst for the true story.

I had an interesting email exchange with someone claiming "association" with that app under the subject of "Offensive comment on your page". There are also a few similar posts in this thread, but they are nowhere near as entertaining. :)

The emails, starting December 12:

Hi, What's the point of your email ?

I know what open source is too, and I know there is no such open source app out there.

I've spent thousands of hours on my app and I've searched hi and low.

Show me the webpage. Point me to the source.

Do that and if you are correct I'll be happy to apologize profusely.and take back any such comments.

LOL,

You're kidding right ?

There are no Java, C, C++ or any human computer language source language files there.

Not even a .smali file from a decompile.

(He attached the decompiled Smal etc version of that Motorola FM app.)

OK.

So you figured out how to decompile the Motorola app to smali. Or you found it decompiled somewhere.

No decent android developer is ever going to believe Smali is your source code. You need the Java code.

And com.motorola.fm is a dead give away where the app came from.

I'm surprised Google has left your app on the Market. I guess they make a few bucks from it...

I'm currently reading this site to get better info about protecting my app from cracking: http://androidcracking.blogspot.com/search/label/anti-cracking

There's some VERY good info there about reverse engineering existing apps.

I didn't respond to the last 2 emails as I didn't see any point. The http://code.google.com/p/opensource-fm-radio/downloads/list he posted was made just before his email about it. LOL. :)