Let’s get one thing straight – I use the original Tweetie every day. It lets me easily manage multiple accounts, and gives me more features than the Twitter site. I was excited to hear about its recently-released “sequel”, Tweetie 2, until I started reading up on it.
Tweetie 2 is a re-written, upgraded version of the Tweetie app that I already paid $3 for eight months ago. And they’re charging $3 for it again. I feel that Tweetie 2 should be free for current Tweetie owners, or at the very least heavily discounted. I understand that the programmers spent some time on re-writing the code, but doesn’t that just mean they spent their time working on a new product instead of improving upon the one we all paid for already? Not only that, but they’ve pulled the original Tweetie app from the App Store, thereby guaranteeing that those of us that were hoping for improvements on our original app will be instead met with a smug little $3 twitter troll.
The worst part is that many in the industry are watching Tweetie 2 to see how well it will sell (currently the #2 paid app in the store) so that they can charge for their upgrades “sequels”, too.
Russ Crandall:
Tyler Miller:
Steve McKay:
Giang Cao:
I didn’t buy a coffee today, so I’m buying Tweetie 2 to preserve cosmic balance. Sorry Russ, but I don’t want the universe to end.
Banned. There are free Twitter apps that do just as much.
I don’t have any thoughts either way about tweetie, but I agree with you on general principle. It sounds like all they are doing is price gouging – I almost boycotted MW2 for the exact same reason.
Did you know that the App Store doesn’t have an “upgrade” pricing model for when a developer updates their app? I didn’t think so.
Besides, it’s two bucks – and Tweetie isn’t coded by a big corporation. It’s one guys living. Give him a break.
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I’m not really sure why people feel like they’re getting ripped off for three dollars. I bought a hotdog today for three dollars. I paid 4 dollars to park my car downtown when I made a stop at the Apple store (for a 1/2 hr). If paying 3 more dollars means developers can continue to create applications we use daily then I’m all for it.