I have iOS and Android devices and none of the apps I run are counterfeit versions.

My older devices are jailbroken only to make their performance smoother and without much hiccups caused by the recent updates.

You can wait for the apps to go on sale if they’re priced too steep. Like this Christmas, Square Enix slashed off 70% from some of their most popular games.

Please, support app developers as much as possible.

The first sentence in that paragraph is satirical in nature. If it haven’t dawned on you yet, well at least you now have an idea.

The second one is about the other things that Hackulous is offering the community other than making paid apps free. Some of the apps that were disapproved by Apple goes to this repository. It’s helpful for devs in such a way that they’re still able to reach their target audience (or at least some of it) without Apple’s help.

TBYC

Give developers whats due them, just think, if developing apps is your bread and butter, would you like others to pirate your app too?

Also, you don’t need a credit card to buy from the appstore, make a US itunes account (google how to make iTunes account without a credit card) then buy iTunes gift card from eBay.ph, Sulit.com or tipidcp, 440-700 for a $10 iTunes gift card and you can download your favorite apps, no piracy required.

“We can all speculate the true root cause of their departure or we can just thank them for countless dough we saved by opting for their service rather than paying the talented developers for their efforts. Either way, we can all agree that Hackulous will be dearly missed and hopefully other groups/communities will be able to fill in the void that the team left in the iOS app ecosystem.”