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This feels like anti-consumer pricing to me. Obviously, the prices are all low, so I welcome the "first world problems" accusations, but they already charged separately for the iPad and iPhone versions for seemingly no reason, and it just doesn't feel good being required to pay again for what appears to be nothing more than an iOS 7 redesign (granted, a good-looking one) that the vast majority of apps will offer as a normal free update.

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I remember balking at apps that had separate iPhone and iPad versions... and then I tried to make a universal app. There is a LOT of work involved.

I was a bit bummed it was a paid upgrade, but I think we have to blame Twitter for that. Only acquiring new users is no longer a viable business model, twitter clients need to find ways to get money from their existing users in order to continue development.

Anyway, $3 for something I KNOW will be good (having used Tweetbot 1&2 extensively) is a no-brainer.

$3 is hardly anti-consumer. It's literally me having a 1.5 hour nap in my apartment, or part of a cup of coffee. They're also in the position of having a very restricted number of API keys they can use, which is why I imagine this is being released and branded as a separate version.

It's not about the dollar amount, which I tried to emphasize. It's about not giving updates for free, which for non-game apps is overwhelming the norm. As for the API key limit, I don't see why that makes a difference for this, unless Twitter has some specific rule that they allow new API keys if you release a new major version or something like that.

But wouldn't older customers who just updated keep the same token, so it would only use new ones as new users bought the app? Losing tokens shouldn't have been a huge problem if this was the case.

That said, I still support them charging for the update.

It's a whole different app and the old one remains on the store. It's for all the world a different product, which would have its own new key.

Lol.

Also, that's just the "upgrade" pricing, expect it to bump to $4.99 shortly.

I like that they're charging again for it, but only because I prefer TweetBot 2 and want to continue using it. If they released TB 3 as an upgrade to 2 it would be very difficult not to upgrade.

It's an app that's there if you want it; if you don't, there's an app that's already great.

I'm staying on the old app for now and don't expect them to brick the old one.

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