Ryan, Thanks for clarifying, finally, at least. Rebranded Twitter or not, Tweetie as owned and developed by Twitter basically reinforces and confirms everything that we posted on the Nambu blog this morning: Twitter will take anything significant built around Twitter for itself, 100%.
Twitter is now officially developing native applications on three platforms: iPhone OS, OSX and Blackberry, all free. Simply brutal. But I am not nearly affected as the iPhone developers. They should be rightfully livid that Twitter moved to wipe them out and take all advertising revenue (iAd and other stuff) on the iPhone and iPad for themselves rather than share it, as almost all other platforms do. Pretty sad. Make no mistake, "Twitter for iPhone" will take all significant market share, and there is nothing any of the developers there that have done great work can do about it. If you do not see this, you do not understand the basics of business. Making Tweetie free is pretty brutal as well, but only because Twitter is doing it. Everyone else should be put on notice that you will be next, as we have been. Mr. Wilson and Twitter, with these moves, and have basically told everyone of competence that they must accept their development efforts as only ending up as a nice lifestyle business. Anything more, and Twitter will move to take it from you, simple as that. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambuc.om On Apr 12, 10:39 am, Michael Macasek <mich...@oneforty.com> wrote: > Ryan, > > Great news thanks for the update! > > Jesse, > > Well said. > > On Apr 12, 10:40 am, Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > One more from me. People have been asking for specific details around > > Tweetie for Mac and I wanted to make sure we clearly message our plans > > as we know it. To be clear, Tweetie for the iPhone and it's developer, > > Loren Brichter, were the focus of our acquisition, but as part of the > > deal we also got Tweetie for Mac. > > > Loren had been hard at work on a new version of Tweetie for Mac that > > he was going to release soon. Our plan is to still release the new > > version and it will continue to be called Tweetie (not renamed to > > Twitter). We will also discontinue the paid version. > > > Hope that's clear. Please let me know if you have any questions. > > > Best, Ryan -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
