After almost three months, famous multi protocol chat client Trillian has been approved in the iPhone appstore. In the past couple of years Beejive, IM+, fring etc got pretty popular in the appstore with hundreds of downloads everyday. However, Trillian’s strength is its huge desktop install base of loyal users. Trilian is  one of the earliest desktop IM clients that supported multiple protocols like Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ etc.

It should be a bittersweet day for Trillian makers Cerulean Studios. The app has already been cracked/pirated and is distributed in leading pirate forums for download. The number of downloads prove that the pirated app is getting very popular among the jailbroken iphone community. iPhone appstore piracy is worse when compared to Windows desktop app piracy. Atleast in the case of Windows, pirates have the hassle of finding the right keygen or crack. In the case of jailbroken iPhones, it’s just download and run the app. So very sad for the developers of Trillian, they do not have the option to blacklist or kick the pirates from their servers thanks to the limitations imposed by Apple.