Alex Nichols

I have heard a lot of people complaining about the $2.99 upgrade price for Tweetie 2. It is foolish that people think tweetie’s developer, Loren Brichter, has time to rewrite the entire app and include a ton of new features without charging anything. The fact of the matter is that he is only asking for $2.99 from you in return for the hours of work he has put into making a kick-ass app! I have been testing out the app for a while now and I can assure you that it is well worth the upgrade price.

There are a ton of new features in 2.0 that no other iphone twitter clients offer such as “In-app rich-text email, refresh all on launch, save drafts to birdhouse, autocomplete recent searches, autcomplete go-to-user, threaded conversations, short url previewing, and much more.” Nobody should be complaining about paying $2.99 for a major update. For some reason, people seem to have it in their minds that all iPhone application updates should be free. iPhone applications take just as much effort and time to write as mac applications and there is no reason that people are entitled to free updates.

People are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for a CS4 update with “many new features”. Why do people have such a problem with paying a measly $2.99 for an awesome update? Loren didn’t just add a few features, change the interface, and name it 2.0. He rewrote the entire app from scratch. As he said in an email, “It [Tweetie 2.0] doesn’t share a *single* line of code with the original Tweetie for iPhone.”

In Conclusion: Tweetie 2.0 has been completely rewritten and a ton of new features have been added. There is absolutely no reason to complain about meager $2.99 for a amazing update to a wonderful application.

mrgan:

In 1983, an Atari 2600 game such as Galaxian cost $32.99. If that sounds like a lot, remember that in 2009 dollars that’s more than $70.

The system itself retailed at $199, which is about $700 in 2009 dollars. The market was almost 20 million units strong, which is something like 25 million consoles in 2009 (adjusting for population growth).

So, also in 2009, when someone makes an awesome 3D game you can play on the phone you pull out of your pocket, some nerdwad somewhere will complain that $1.99 is way too much; should be 99c MAX.