I Paid for Twitterrific
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Posted by austin in: Apple, Technology, Twitter, trackback
When Craig Hockenberry released Twitterrific 3 as either ad-supported or a $15 licence, I paid it immediately. According to one “Captain Marc” over at Odelbee, there’s a “hack” to disable the ads from Twitterrific, who apparently thinks that I’m a bit of an idiot for paying for Twitterrific. (Interestingly, between comment #9 and #21, Marc went from thinking that Twitterrific was a “POS” and a pretty good app.) “Captain Marc” is wrong: the switch from free to free+ads or paid wasn’t without warning; this was stated up front on the download page of Twitterrific.
He’s further wrong: Eudora was simply a tool for receiving and delivering … content
, yet it sold for quite a long time. Very few of the applications that I’ve bought for the Mac since I switched eighteen months ago have I had any qualms about buying after buying them, and Twitterrific is one of the apps that I use every day, multiple times a day. There are features I’d like to see, certainly, but it’s a damned good product and I’m proud to have paid for it.There’s plenty of software that I wouldn’t buy at full price; sometimes I’ve waited for bundles (and my unwillingness to pay full price has generally been justified by the lack of use the product ends up seeing). More often, though, I just stop using the product. If I use it, though, I pay for it. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. And so should you, “Captain Marc.” You certainly shouldn’t be posting hacks or alleged hacks.
More on this from Seth Dillingham and Justin Miller.
The Twitterrific icon in this post is copied from the IconFactory web site. It belongs to IconFactory and has been used with permission.
Comments
I’ve been putting off paying for Twitterrific even though I too have it running most of the time. I have paid for a lot of other Mac shareware (more so than I ever used to when I ran Windows) and so I don’t know what’s keeping me from registering Twitterrific. I’ll add it to the list of New Year’s resolutions!
your twitterings get rss-ed to the rubycorner site. why do you think that anyone there is interested in your brown rice risotto? if i want to know, i’ll choose to follow you.
this is twitter-spam
please stop it
It’s not twitter-spam. It’s me importing my tweets into my blog and RubyCorner having been configured to follow my entire blog, not just Ruby entries. Since I’ve changed the use of my blog, but haven’t looked at RubyCorner in 18 months or more, I haven’t actually noticed. (I don’t use planets, for the most part.)
Just for you, I’ve changed the RubyCorner configuration. Happy now?