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0 pointskennywinker14y ago0 comments

Did you miss the headline? _Mac_ App Store.

Full price upgrades works for Angry Birds, but anything less episodic or standalone and you have problems. See Tweetie 2, for an example.

This issue is going to be rampant in the Mac App Store very very soon. It's been out for what, a year now? Time for a round of big updates... now you have two copies of all your apps.

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msbarnett14y ago

> See Tweetie 2, for an example

What's the example, exactly? Genuinely curious. I upgraded to Tweetie 2 as soon as it came out. My impression was that it was very successful right up until Twitter bought Atebits.

kennywinkerOP14y ago

It's hard to say how much of that was noise, and what effect it had on sales / success, but there was a lot of hype about the paid upgrade leaving people unhappy.

Example headlines (Google "tweetie 2 paid update" for more):

"Tweetie 2 Pricing Controversy: An Interview with Tweetie's Creator ..."

"Tweetie 2: 'New App' – Will Spit On Existing 'Old App' Users | iSource"

"Still won't pay for Tweetie 2 upgrade? Try these Twitter apps ..."

"Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw | Macworld"

atebits14y ago

The publicity only seemed to help. Tweetie 2 hit #1 Top Grossing on the App Store 24 hours after launch.

msbarnett14y ago

Fair enough. I'm not sure a mechanism for having paid upgrades under the same name as the original app would have avoided any of those headlines, though.

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mmuro14y ago

You may not be aware but these are available on the Mac App Store.

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0 pointskennywinker14y ago0 comments

Did you miss the headline? _Mac_ App Store.

Full price upgrades works for Angry Birds, but anything less episodic or standalone and you have problems. See Tweetie 2, for an example.

This issue is going to be rampant in the Mac App Store very very soon. It's been out for what, a year now? Time for a round of big updates... now you have two copies of all your apps.

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msbarnett14y ago

> See Tweetie 2, for an example

What's the example, exactly? Genuinely curious. I upgraded to Tweetie 2 as soon as it came out. My impression was that it was very successful right up until Twitter bought Atebits.

kennywinkerOP14y ago

It's hard to say how much of that was noise, and what effect it had on sales / success, but there was a lot of hype about the paid upgrade leaving people unhappy.

Example headlines (Google "tweetie 2 paid update" for more):

"Tweetie 2 Pricing Controversy: An Interview with Tweetie's Creator ..."

"Tweetie 2: 'New App' – Will Spit On Existing 'Old App' Users | iSource"

"Still won't pay for Tweetie 2 upgrade? Try these Twitter apps ..."

"Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw | Macworld"

atebits14y ago

The publicity only seemed to help. Tweetie 2 hit #1 Top Grossing on the App Store 24 hours after launch.

msbarnett14y ago

Fair enough. I'm not sure a mechanism for having paid upgrades under the same name as the original app would have avoided any of those headlines, though.

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mmuro14y ago

You may not be aware but these are available on the Mac App Store.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse