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Methodology on Android is also problematic, for the same reasons:

http://recode.net/2015/01/06/mobile-game-piracy-isnt-all-bad...

Five percent are paid downloads, so the ratio is 9.5 to 1, but a portion of those are people who have both a phone and a tablet, people who have more than one Android device with them. So a small portion of that 95 percent is going to be taken up by those installs.



> So a small portion of that 95 percent is going to be taken up by those installs.

More! I have burned through four Android phones and three tablets with one google account. Everyone who upgrades their device makes "one pirated copy" by the logic of this study.

And a huge portion of the current (licensed, not the chinese ones without a valid Google license) Android phones are likely to be upgrades for older or broken devices.




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