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2016-03-19, 12:12
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And here another one <link removed>
Does kodi want us to still report these things here anymore?
There seems to be quit a few ones like this in google play store
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2016-04-03, 19:31
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This one is also not good
It makes from selling the kodi software and with the logo and name
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I didn't see anyone who are using kodi name, if is there anyone than please let me know. Except the mentioned above.
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Just search "kodi" in craigslist. My city's full of dealers. When d!sh went down, they turned to fta. When that went down, they now sell fully loaded kodi boxes.
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ebay (germany) is full with sellers of kodi-boxes with illegal addons. they clearly make advertising with things like "sportsdevil", different iptv channels (for what you normally have to pay for)...
99% of these "kodi boxes" are cheap android boxes. maybe it was a bad idea to support android platform
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(2016-05-12, 20:55)Ed76 Wrote: ebay (germany) is full with sellers of kodi-boxes with illegal addons. they clearly make advertising with things like "sportsdevil", different iptv channels (for what you normally have to pay for)...
99% of these "kodi boxes" are cheap android boxes. maybe it was a bad idea to support android platform
It's not really an Android-specific problem, and it never was. It happened with iOS when the ATV2 became the first real "brand new" device that could run Kodi for under $100 USD (a shocker at one time). eBay was full of ATV2 listings with pre-loaded add-ons. Even used ATV1s were all over eBay (they there actually a little more expensive when you factored in the BCHD card to get HD playback, at least at first).
Even if Android was dropped today, we have too many other cheap platforms out there. The Raspberry Pi has $5, $20, and $35 options. There are lots of ARM devices that run some type of linux-based system that are also below $50. I bought a Windows/Intel tablet for $60 that runs Kodi wonderfully. x86 (aka, "real" HTPCs) are becoming just as cheap.
At the same time broadband speeds became cheaper and faster. File locker sites that fuel most of these add-ons are more numerous than ever.
I don't think anything would have drastically changed if Kodi/XBMC was never ported to Android. At most, it might have delayed the "floodgates", but cheap and good hardware was inevitable.
