Regarding Tweetie 2.0 Costing $3

When I buy an app, I’m entitled to:(answers)

We were going to post some faraway preachy editorial about Tweetie 2.0 being a paid upgrade but it looks like everyblog and their siblingsite has already done that. So here’s our quick take:

We’re buying it, and happily. We asked developer Atebits why they went the route of a new app vs. an in-app purchase, and the response is worth quoting:

If all I were adding were features, next the in-app purchase route would have been an option (but soon after again, whether all I were offering were features, I’d probably release it as a free update). Tweetie 2 is a fresh start, 100% rewritten, shares no cipher with the original . The only thing they have in common is the name.

So bottom line, Apple doesn’t (yet?) supply a mechanism for paid upgrades, and in-app purchase allows for more subject matter, not for

replacing an old app with a whole new one. So, yeah. that is the option Atebits took, and it works for us. New great app, same great price. And it is a great app, one which took considerable instance and effort to build, and we want to support that considering we want the developer to be successful ample to build Tweetie 3.0 just as big an update next duration.

Sure, scale factors into that — $3 is a no brainer, so whether you ask us what we’ll do whether a GPS app wants $100 again next year, well… We’ll light those torches when and whether we come to them.

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Regarding Tweetie 2.0 Costing $3