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ronin691May 12th 2009 12:31PM
Would be interested to know, though impossible to account for, how much is "buyers remorse" - where a person paid full retail for an application, had a bad experience with it ( *cough*Microsoft*cough* ) then put an ISO of the install CD up as a torrent.
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That staggering figure ( 41%) shows what a waste of time and energy selling locally installed, proprietary, closed, OS specific software really is. If 50% of your sales are being lost to piracy, time to close up shop or switch to being a proper web app. I mean seriously, what's the point of being in business? If your OS specific desktop app cannot be converted into a prosperous web app, either your decision makers are totally clueless, or your sales staff are a bunch of crooks ( or both ).