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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 unhapp
by kennywinker 15y 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"
- msbarnett 15y agoFair 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.
- fpgeek 15y agoYou don't? If people had complained about being charged a reasonable, discounted upgrade price for Tweetie 2, they'd have been laughed at. That has been a common model for software upgrades for as long as I remember (and quite probably longer than I have been alive).
- msbarnett 15y agoPeople always complain about being asked to pay to upgrade. If they don't get a discount, they complain about that. If they do get a discount, they complain that the upgrade "should have" been a free minor version bump instead. In my experience, at least, it's more or less just a pathological behaviour that you can't escape.
- atebits 15y agoThe publicity only seemed to help. Tweetie 2 hit #1 Top Grossing on the App Store 24 hours after launch.