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Tweetie 2.0
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I don't have a problem paying for good software.
It's $2.99.. Really folks? REALLY?
You're going to spend $40 / month on data...
probably $300 on gasoline
$100 on coffee...
and yet, $2.99 for 12 months of use, and you're going to lose sleep over it? That's less than a PENNY A DAY!
I'm always amazed at the people who spend $20 on a DVD they'll watch once, or $60 on a video game they'll play for a month, or even $8 for a margarita... but yet, $2.99 is too much?
Tweetie 2 has been in development for many many months. Can you imagine going to work for months on end for a product that will sell for $2.99?
It's $2.99.. Really folks? REALLY?
You're going to spend $40 / month on data...
probably $300 on gasoline
$100 on coffee...
and yet, $2.99 for 12 months of use, and you're going to lose sleep over it? That's less than a PENNY A DAY!
I'm always amazed at the people who spend $20 on a DVD they'll watch once, or $60 on a video game they'll play for a month, or even $8 for a margarita... but yet, $2.99 is too much?
Tweetie 2 has been in development for many many months. Can you imagine going to work for months on end for a product that will sell for $2.99?
from the Tech Crunch article:
this by far is reason for me to upgrade... yay!!
Tweetie will finally make it back to my homescreen after being dismissed by BirdFeed and then Twitterific 2.
Sacrifice a coffee... easily done! Loren is a great guy who deserves the credibility.
this by far is reason for me to upgrade... yay!!
Tweetie will finally make it back to my homescreen after being dismissed by BirdFeed and then Twitterific 2.
Sacrifice a coffee... easily done! Loren is a great guy who deserves the credibility.
I'm the same. I have about 20 twitter clients for the iPhone and SimplyTweet is the only one on my home screen. It already has all the features that Tweetie 2 is talking about.
I'll buy Tweetie 2 just to do a comparison.
same here. I really like SimplyTweet but for $2.99 I'll give Tweetie 2.0 a spin seeing tgat it added conversation viewing.
I don't get all the pissing & moaning by people who were happy w/Tweetie 1
$3 in the long run isn't much. It's what, the same price as a coffee? Just skip it one morning if it means that much to you!
I don't mind paying $2.99 for Tweetie at all, I love Tweetie. But this mindset that everyone buys $3 coffee every morning has to stop. Coffee here costs less than $1 and I rarely have it anyway.
Exactly. My 24 oz coffee costs me 99 cents. I'm not some yuppie drinking lattes from Starbucks.
I would be happy if atebits introduced the app at 99 cents for the first 24 hours and then upped it back to 3. I think he'd see more sales than ever before.
For those that have purchased Tweetie 1.x awhile back, paying $2.99 for 2.0 is easier to accept. If you had purchased Tweetie 1.x within the last month, however, paying $2.99 again would be less reasonable.
Add to the fact that Tweetie 2.0 lacks one feature many users want the most, push notification, I think it's natural for many to balk at the price tag. Better solution would've been free upgrade to 2.0 with in-app purchase option for push notification.
Add to the fact that Tweetie 2.0 lacks one feature many users want the most, push notification, I think it's natural for many to balk at the price tag. Better solution would've been free upgrade to 2.0 with in-app purchase option for push notification.
Has it been determined that push doesn't come with 2.0? I know it's been back and forth as to whether or not it has it.
I don't see the big deal about the $2.99 price tag. Tweetie is a great app. It simplifies the tweeting process and offers great features like nearby and trends.
i must admit that I switched to the Tweetdeck's iPhone app for a while, but after a some time I missed a lot of the features that Tweetie offered that Tweetdeck did not and switched back. I just wish that I was using a Mac to take advantage of the desktop client that tweetie offers.
i must admit that I switched to the Tweetdeck's iPhone app for a while, but after a some time I missed a lot of the features that Tweetie offered that Tweetdeck did not and switched back. I just wish that I was using a Mac to take advantage of the desktop client that tweetie offers.
1) You don't need to upgrade to Tweetie 2.0.
2) The Mac desktop upgrade will be free.
3) You didn't have to upgrade to 3GS from an older iPhone.
4) $2.99 is nothing to support the best Twitter app for the iPhone platform.
5) People like to b1tch about anything.
2) The Mac desktop upgrade will be free.
3) You didn't have to upgrade to 3GS from an older iPhone.
4) $2.99 is nothing to support the best Twitter app for the iPhone platform.
5) People like to b1tch about anything.
Link please? (sorry, im at work. I dont like searching a lot here. Im sure you understand)
Quote:
Notifications — Yes, you can now get Push Notifications for specific users’ tweets on your device. [Update: My bad, these are not Push Notifications, but rather a way to toggle on and off the SMS notifications that Twitter sends.]
I guess when Tweetie 3 comes out, probably next year, it will have true push notifications. And Tweetie 3 will cost 5 dollars for everyone, because its a brand new app. And then the year after that, it will be Tweetie 4, a brand new app yet again. But what about Tweetie 2 and 3? Oh they've been abandoned. You paid for an app that will be just thrown by the wayside.
Oh, and I forgot, in between Twitter is going to change stuff around, go through a few more twitpocalipses. While all that is going on, all the other major twitter apps will release incremental fixes so you can go about using the app you paid for correctly without bugs. Loren on the other hand will be too busy working on a whole new app, discarding Tweetie 2 just like he did with Tweetie 1, to care about maintaining the original app that so many paid for. Heck, by then Apple will have released 4.0, and Tweetie 2 won't be ready for it, just like Tweetie 1 still isn't said to be 3.0 ready.
I don't mind paying for an app that a developer truly SUPPORTS with constant fixes and performance upgrades. You're all right, its 3 dollars, and a GOOD developer who continues to SUPPORT his app does deserve that. What I do mind is a developer who says he was too busy to work on said fixes and performance upgrades on the original app because he is creating a whole new version of an app you already bought.
It took Loren so long to come up with a fix for the first twitpocalapse, and thats not counting the time Apple sat on it, then rejected it, then finally approved it. In that time, the developers of Simply Tweet and Twittelator had several fixes done, submitted, and approved.
In all, if he does this once, whats stopping him from doing it again and again? Whats stopping him from releasing Tweetie 2 and then abandoning it just like he did Tweetie 1. There is something to be said for a developer who can feel good about not wanting to support his original app anymore.
He has mentioned that the problem isn't with providing upgrade costs it's about Apple not PROVIDING a method to do so.
You people don't seem to understand (not just the original poster i'm responding to but everyone) that Apple does NOT provide upgrade pricing on the App Store.
You can't for example put an app up on the store in June 2009 for $2.99, then when version 2 is ready allow for people who purchased version 1 to pay $.99 for an upgrade and other non-upgrades $2.99. You can only do 2 things. 1) Make the upgrade free for all users who previously purchased or 2) make a new app and charge a price for it.
You can't provide upgrade pricing on the app store. Don't like it? Call apple and complain. Don't complain about the developer not providing upgrade pricing. He has absolutely no way to do it. Apple is the one charging us, and the developer has no choice but to provide a price for the app.
Maybe with App Store 3.0 we'll see what most developers want. Upgrade pricing. Until then, bitch at apple.
It makes no sense for him to make it free. It's his job. He makes a living off Tweetie. So he needs to make money somehow. Giving it free to all users would mean all the work he put into Tweetie 2 was just to say thanks to all you who bought the first app. yea, it'd be nice. But seriously, how reasonable is that? It's almost like saying that if you have someone mow your lawn one week, they should do it for free the next week just because you're such a great customer.
Yes, I'd be somewhat pissed if I had purchased version 1 within the past month. But the rest of you schmucks have no reason to be pissed off. You either upgrade or you don't. Simple as that. But again, don't think it's Loren's fault. It's Apple's for not allowing upgrade pricing.
You people don't seem to understand (not just the original poster i'm responding to but everyone) that Apple does NOT provide upgrade pricing on the App Store.
You can't for example put an app up on the store in June 2009 for $2.99, then when version 2 is ready allow for people who purchased version 1 to pay $.99 for an upgrade and other non-upgrades $2.99. You can only do 2 things. 1) Make the upgrade free for all users who previously purchased or 2) make a new app and charge a price for it.
You can't provide upgrade pricing on the app store. Don't like it? Call apple and complain. Don't complain about the developer not providing upgrade pricing. He has absolutely no way to do it. Apple is the one charging us, and the developer has no choice but to provide a price for the app.
Maybe with App Store 3.0 we'll see what most developers want. Upgrade pricing. Until then, bitch at apple.
It makes no sense for him to make it free. It's his job. He makes a living off Tweetie. So he needs to make money somehow. Giving it free to all users would mean all the work he put into Tweetie 2 was just to say thanks to all you who bought the first app. yea, it'd be nice. But seriously, how reasonable is that? It's almost like saying that if you have someone mow your lawn one week, they should do it for free the next week just because you're such a great customer.
Yes, I'd be somewhat pissed if I had purchased version 1 within the past month. But the rest of you schmucks have no reason to be pissed off. You either upgrade or you don't. Simple as that. But again, don't think it's Loren's fault. It's Apple's for not allowing upgrade pricing.
Personally I wish the minimum price for an app was $10 so that sorry moron losers would go to Android, WM, Blackberry, etc and leave the rest of us intelligent people alone.
So if I buy an app, only to see it updated less than a month later, new version still missing a key feature (push notification) found on many competing apps, and I pay the full price to upgrade... I become intelligent? If I don't, I become a moron?
GO COMPLAIN TO APPLE.
Apple doesn't provide devs with a mechanism for paid "upgrades". So the only alternative is to make a new app and charge the same. When done properly, an upgrade to 2.0 would cost may be 0.99 or 1.99 and if you are just buying the app for the first time it is 2.99$. This can't be done now. The dev either have to make a new app, or give the upgrade for free.
If it's so bad you don't have to buy it. But if you bought Tweetie 1 you thought it was worth it. If it was worth it yesterday, it's still worth it today. If you think Tweetie 2 is worth it, buy it, if not, don't buy it! It's that simple.
I wish it was a free upgrade too but I do think the features it has make it totally worth it.