I remember reading this when 2048 came out and it came out as a huge whine from the developers. It completely turned me off of Threes. Someone succeeded using

I remember reading this when 2048 came out and it came out as a huge whine from the developers. It completely turned me off of Threes. Someone succeeded using a similar idea, and in many people's opinions, they did it better and it was free. The next step shouldn't be to write a smug blog post about how the other product is crap and people should be paying you instead.