Jean-Charles VERDIE › Comments

Bêtises ... Moi, quand je veux dormir une heure de plus, je DORS une heure de plus. - DAL

Si on se lève au milieu de la nuit pour changer d'heure, on dormira moins. Logique. - Jean-Charles VERDIE

Il sera donc impératif de se coucher après trois heures. - Brome

Et tout ça, moi ça me file une heure d'astreinte de plus ! donc une heure de risque de boulot supplémentaire... :-) - Passyr

waouhhh merci pour cette petite piqure de rappel, il y a du bon sur FriendFeed - Chaussette

C'est cool on va faire la chouille une heure de plus alors!Du coup va falloir prévoir une bouteille de bourb' en plus! - zooz

No it's the only thing missing... My favorite client SimplyTweet has that.. - Svartling

Yes, I like SimplyTweet, too - Mistletoe Glen from iPhone

I'm really mad with it : no ping.fm integration anymore, lot of useless bell&whistles (who cares about favstar or twittblock _on the iphone_ ?), save draft with a quick and dirty birdfeed integration (not two ways!), no push notif... And you get charged like if it was a new software. Really disappointed. - Jean-Charles VERDIE

I'm guessing more of an Upgrade than an Update. In any case, it does kinda kick you if you bought the previous version. Not too sure how I feel about this strategy yet. Seems like it's going about it the "traditional" software sale way. Ala new version of Windows/Mac OSX, etc. where you buy a new version every couple years. But at the same time, there's an "upgrade" version available if... more... - John Wang

I think if the dev doesn't work out something for existing Tweetie users then it is a very, very, very bad call. A big kick in the teeth to the users who made him a success. And I absolutely do NOT agree that the 'new app' thing is the justification. Is it still a Twitter app for the iPhone? - Patrick Jordan

People are happy to pay $50 for a console game sequel, or $5 for an iPhone game sequel, but not $3 for a major new version of an app you probably use more than either of that other software combined? Probably frequent times a day? Give me a break. Tweetie 1 should've cost $10. - David Chartier from iPhone

David - You have a good point. Though some console games are now $60. In any case, I'm not so sure the vast majority of the users overlap into those categories. Thus, why I tried to compare it more to software you actually install on a desktop computer. Which I still think isn't that great of a comparison as well. The problem is, I haven't seen many if any other apps go this route yet.... more... - John Wang

David - I would never have minded if Tweetie was a $9.99 app. I think the reason this decision is out of order is the principle of it. Up the price of Tweetie 1 or 2 if you want, but give your existing users an upgrade price for 2. It's NOT a new app, it is a much improved new VERSION of an existing app that many users paid for. They should be given a break on the price of the upgraded app. - Patrick Jordan

I agree with Patrick. Go ahead and raise the price for NEW users of the app if needed, but offer as a free (ideally) or at least heavily discounted upgrade for current users. Otherwise, I think this is a BAD move and will backfire. Or what.... current users decide to break down and buy v2 and then have to pay AGAIN when v3 comes out? - Herb Hernandez

Ok. I'll be honest. From a developer's perspective, you gotta understand that Apple takes 30% of each sales' as their cut. So he's really getting like around $2.50 or so per sale. That aside, we're talking about $3 here. It's very hard to argue about $3 with some people. I mean, the TomTom app is $99. And there's plenty other apps out there that cost more than $3. Ok. Now for the... more... - John Wang

John - I can understand this being a difficult situation for developers, and one where Apple does not make things any easier. But ... there is a recent example of a 'crossover' app from the jailbreak arena - Snapture - offering a refund to all their half a million existing users from 'the other side' when they no longer supported the jailbreak app and took it to the App Store. From what... more... - Patrick Jordan

There seems to be too few new features (cosmetic put aside) to be a clear justification of charging it again. There's not even a synchronnization between iphone and desktop client. This would have been a huge asset to justify charging us ~again~. Disappointed by @atebit's policy there. - Jean-Charles VERDIE

It's $3!!! You can barely get ONE reasonable cup of coffee or a mixed drink for that at most shops. These are apps that developers slave over for months, apps that we use and re-use constantly throughout the day and week. The fact that this discussion is even happening blows my mind. - David Chartier from iPhone