Loren, congrats man. I think the best man won. Hard work and dedication to perfection paid off in spades. You deserve the accolades (and the $$$).
Oh and everyone else? Thanks for playing. I'll catch you all next week on the Facebook forums. Anyone have the odds on who Twitter will pick as the winners on the other platforms? Isaiah On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dewald, > > I'm surprised that you failed to mention that Twitter can also advertise the > heck out of it on Twitter.com and via tweets etc - millions for further > development - and very significant marketing resources available too. > > I disagree with your sentiment though. Twitter's free to build or buy > whatever they want to. As a third party developer it's one of the risks you > take on when you start building on someone else's platform. If you don't > acknowledge that, you're being naive. > > Sure it's going to suck if they do something to harm Favstar, but I'm aware > it's a risk - and I'm going to try and keep innovating to keep Favstar useful > for users regardless. > > Tim. > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's great for Loren. > > But, there's a problem, and I hope I'm not the only seeing it. > > Twitter has just kicked all the other developers of Twitter iPhone > (and iPad) clients in the teeth. Big time. Now suddenly their products > compete with a free product that carries the Twitter brand name, and > that has potentially millions of dollars at its disposal for further > development. > > It's really like they're saying, "We picked the winner. Thanks for > everything you've done in the past, but now, screw you." > > This would not have been such a huge deal if the developer ecosystem > did not play such a huge role in propelling Twitter to where it is > today. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > On Apr 9, 10:41 pm, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before anyone rants, let me say congratulations Loren, and congratulations > > Twitter. Awesome! Totally awesome! > > > > :-) > > > > Tim. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
