I never paid that price for this app. I think when I bought it, it was $4 or so. Can't believe it's $10 now. I have it on my Mac and iPhone though, highly recommended.
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$4 is a much better price point for it, but who knows maybe I'm wrong about this. In the end, if it doesn't sell as they hope they can always lower the price since this is not a physical item, they have been on the appstore long enough and know the market.
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Didn't know this, but thanks for the info.
Yeah, honestly I feel like I paid $5 for the universal app at the time. I get enough use that I'd spend $10 on it. After getting used to the synced timeline I couldn't go back to the regular twitter client. Tapbots does good work. They stay on top of updates and are very responsive in the developer community.
And of course not everyone may want or need these features. But for those who do, it's well worth the money.
I love Tweetbot.
Downside is that a lot of functionality isn't available via 3rd party apps as it's not supported by the API. Twitter polls, tagging photos, and many other features aren't available because of this.
I have always found it spooky that when I would use Tweetbot on my phone and scroll down the feed, Tweetbot on my Mac would scroll down to that point as well. It was a very weird thing to see the first time. I thought something was wrong with the Mac app for a minute.
I hate using the official Twitter app because of the sponsored tweets and while you were away.
I hate using the official Twitter app because of the sponsored tweets and while you were away.
Where did this idea come from that software is worthless? Software, in general, now costs a minuscule fraction of what programs used to cost, yet people get all bent out of shape because an app costs $5 or $10. If it saves you $10 worth of time, or aggravation, over the course of a year, then it's a bargain. Unless your time is worth nothing.
Yep it was $5 when it was initially released, worth that just for the timeline sync between devices for me https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/01/tweetbot-4-with-ios-9-support-now-available/
Who said that it was worthless? where did this idea of disagreeing on price points equals worthlessness... I didn't get bent out of shape, I gave my opinion. People on the internet nowadays like to take things to the extreme, its ridiculous.
There is not an awful lot of room between free and $10. Your original statement, "$10 for a Twitter app. No thanks." implies that $10 is far too high and a reasonable price should be substantially lower. I'm saying, software takes time to write, developer time is expensive, and something like Tweetbot is not a simple thing thrown together in an evening. The price is not unreasonable - far from it. The scale has gotten ridiculously skewed by a race to the bottom (thousands of apps trying to compete on price alone), and the proliferation of "free-to-play" games, that figure they'll trade selling to most of "customers" for raking in big bucks off the few who become addicted. It's sort of a toxic marketplace, and Tweetbot is one of the handful who are still selling a terrific app for a reasonable up-front price.
Of course there is a lot of room between $0-10 especially if you are talking about races to the bottom price you know there are plenty of spaces to put apps in between them in 2016. You just don't want to admit it. For me it's not worth $10 if that is too hard to comprehend then idk what to to tell you.
With features like timeline sync, TweetBot has had full iCloud sync of everything between devices since April 2012. TweetBot had muting for years before the official client did. It has various useful features for "power" users, which might be of limited/no value to "casual" users.
A nice bonus is that 3rd party clients aren't allowed to display adverts and it means that the promoted tweets don't appear in TweetBot. The UI is also massively better than the official client, but this is a subjective thing, so YMMV on that one.
It is annoying that Twitter keep deliberately trying to put 3rd parties out of business so they don't make some features available in the API, so some things aren't in TweetBot like polls because Twitter don't provide an API to let others use that feature.
I kept seeing people saying they posted a poll and was wondering where they posted it for 3-4 months before I actually opened the official Twitter app and saw the polls were right there.
Twitter is one of those companies that took the "let's get really popular and then figure out how to make money off of our service" route. And they owe a lot of their early success to a whole ecosystem of third-party apps for using Twitter. That worked great for their "let's get really popular" phase, but when they actually started trying to figure out how to make money, suddenly all these third-party clients (to whom they partially owe their existence) were/are a liability - they can't really sell ads through the third-party clients.
So now Twitter would be happier if Tweetbot and Twitterific and friends "just went away". This is why they started putting upper limits/quotas on the tokens needed to run these apps (and possibly why Twitter doesn't rush to add their new features to their developer API) - Twitter would much prefer everyone use the official Twitter app, where Twitter can make money via promoted tweets and ads and such. They can't really charge their users directly, because they long ago set the user's expectations that the service is/should be free - this helped build their popularity while simultaneously making it that much harder (once Twitter gained some popularity) for competitors to get a foothold (it's difficult to charge users, given the expectation set by Twitter, and advertisers are less interested in a service that isn't #1 in the field). So, they got the preeminent position in a particular field, but they burned a lot of bridges leading to revenue sources, for them and any potential competitors. And now, yeah, the third-party developers who helped get them where they are, are seen as a liability. :-/
Twitter's behavior in all this is part of the reason I'm always suspicious now of new services that don't have a realistic business model.
Scrolling is super laggy and stuttering on my iPhone 7 Plus as well. Scrolls smoothly on my 6s Plus.
