Again, I believe this is a false equivalency (the w00tstocks are entirely different shows - versions, if you will –, while the specific piece of software I was talking about had stopped working and would not work again if I didn’t pay for the same software in a different distribution channel), but I see where that person is coming from. What I think this person may have been saying was something like, “if you were asked to do your job again because the technology had changed since you first did it, would you think it’s reasonable to not be paid for your job.” Another wondered if someone who paid for w00tstock 4.0 could reasonably expect to get into w00tstock 5.0 without paying. This is absurd, not only because I’m more suited to play Riker than Wesley, but the more I thought about it, I began to consider what this person may have been saying. One of the many false equivalencies was “would you do Star Trek again for free if it was reshot to 16:9”. I don’t know if they’re extending this offer to everyone. For the record, someone at Echofon offered to give me a license key to use with the App Store if I sent an e-mail copy of my receipt to them. I still don’t feel okay doing that, and I think it’s silly to expect users to pay again because Twitter changed its API, but I support Echofon’s decision to conduct their business the way that they feel is best for them. In other words, I wasn’t paying twice for the same app I was paying twice for essentially the same app that would be supported through different channels. So I would be wrong to expect Echofon to give me the App Store version because I’d already paid for the version I was using. The developer ended support for its desktop version (which I had bought a license for in-app) and began to support mobile and App Store versions. I also realize that, in this specific instance, Echofon did nothing wrong. I did not mean to imply that all upgrades (like OS 1 -> OS 2) should just be free. I read what I believe to be a large number of false equivalencies, and rather than try to respond point by point on Twitter, I’ll talk about it here where we can probably have an interesting and informative discussion.įirst off, I never suggested that developers should not get paid for their work, because I do not believe that. The general gist of the response was that I suggested users should expect free support forever and never pay to upgrade software. Hello, tweetbot.Ī non-zero number of developers were offended, and a growing shitstorm swept across my desktop. Sad to bid farewell to echofon, but I’m not paying twice for the same app just to upgrade. I didn’t want to pay again for the same app, so I looked for something different, and now I’m very happily using Tweetbot.Īn interesting thing happened, though, that I thought was worth discussing in more depth than 140 characters at a time allows. A little more searching, and I learned that Echofon wasn’t supporting the version I bought, but was supporting a version that I could buy through the App Store. No problem! I upgrade things all the time! I hit the update link in the menu, and the app told me that I was using the current version. I did some searching and learned that Twitter had changed its API, and if I wanted to continue using Echofon, I’d have to upgrade to the current version. It gave me a persistent “401” error, which meant that it wasn’t working with Twitter’s API. Earlier this afternoon, I tried to open up Echofon, my desktop Twitter client of choice.
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