Eric, I disagree. This just means they've put us on notice that if our apps completely revolve around Twitter we risk going into competition with them. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, although it is frustrating, I agree (this is nothing new - they've been doing this for the last 3 years). The way to succeed on the Twitter platform is to build apps that don't rely on Twitter, but instead use Twitter as a complement to their own ecosystem. Your app should be its own platform, relying on other platforms to complement it, not the other way around. I think that's what Twitter is trying to iterate here, and we see that with the coming advent of @anywhere. I love that they're finally being clear on this, as frustrating as it is for those it affects directly (although the writing's been on the wall for awhile now - I certainly have complained many times about this).
Jesse On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Woodward <e...@nambu.com> wrote: > > 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. >
