golden chyld - thanks, easy 3.0.1 fix.
radioman - where is Pinyin tied to the highlight color? Example sentences are, but the Pinyin shouldn't be unless you've specifically turned on the option to make it that way.
Taller button tap areas on iPad are a reasonable change, we really thought we'd made them big enough in the last few betas but if they're still not there we can make them taller still.
denmitch - thanks; star ratings actually seem to have a very minor impact, if any (we've had our average go as low as 2.5 thanks to competitor sabotage - we know it was competitor sabotage because the same number of 1-star reviews were left for every other popular iOS Chinese dictionary except theirs - and even that had a negligible impact on downloads) but a few nice written reviews certainly do help.
alanmd - thanks. We've got it as "hold for developer release" because after they approve it we're going to do a bit of testing to make sure the integration with their IAP system etc works OK (and because if they approve it at 11pm I'd rather wait until the next morning to deal with the ~2000 emails we'll probably get in its wake), so you'll probably find out about it from our Twitter / Facebook / etc feeds before you see the icon change.
ACardiganAndAFrown - true; the bundles especially hurt us, since they lead to the perception that we're more expensive than we are. We're trying to do a better job with "Add-ons," which should help a good bit - adding screenshots, more detailed descriptions, sample entries, better dictionary demos (no more searching for 'a' words, now you just tap on the "Browse" button from within the add-ons page for that dictionary and can scroll through the whole thing easily), etc.
We actually see very little flagrant abuse of Registration IDs - only a handful have even hit a double-digit # of devices - though since casual piracy does tend to make people feel like suckers for actually paying for the app we should probably do a bit more on that front. It's kind of a stupid thing to give out, frankly, since they're very easy to steal once you have them - e.g., one of your friends can transfer your iOS license to Android and then if you ever try to transfer it yourself you'll discover that you can't. And we certainly have no qualms about blocking people who do abuse them.
Cracks are actually less of a problem because most iOS users at least don't have jailbroken devices and so simply have no way to run a cracked version of Pleco. (the crack you mention was for a very old version and AFAIK nobody's managed to crack a more recent one)
Chinese users we've frankly never expected much from - even back in 2000 金山 was selling Chinese dictionaries on CD for like $3 and still seeing them heavily pirated; there are too many good free options for them, we could theoretically make a product to address that market but it would be very different from our current app both in its design and its business model.