On: Ask HN: My iOS app got pirated, what to do now? Raging? Nothing? Partying?

[wccrawford]

Celebrate! People like your app enough to pirate it.

Because the alternative was that they wouldn't like it enough. There is no 'wanted it but didn't pirate it' option for bored, unethical hackers.

[wccrawford → wccrawford]

Oh, and you might be able to tell if the device is jailbroken, but that has no relation on whether the person paid for your app or not. Don't confuse that.

[sippndipp → wccrawford]

What do you think? Should we try to track that in the backend?

[wccrawford → sippndipp]

Tracking data that isn't useful for serving your customers is a bad idea. Heck, even most of it that -is- useful can make the customer upset.

[albedoa → sippndipp]

No, tracking could lead to the very confusion that you are being warned against.