Tweetie 2.0 is the entire reason I purchased Tweetie 1.0 last year as part of a MacHeist bundle - they said we'd get 2.0 for free when it was released.
If they charge for 2.0, I hope they don't "conveniently" forget about that deal.
(And if they always intended 2.0 to be free, props for sucking $20 out of me.)
Doubt it was intended to be free, but it probably will be free.
If I remember properly, Macheist was before Twitter acquired atebits. When atebits was acquired, they immediately madeTtweetie for iPhone free, because that is in their best interest.
You beat me to it. I also bought the same bundle because Tweetie 2.0 made it a really good deal. Then boom Twitter bought the iPhone app and employed the dev and we where left in the dark. Now if it's free, I'll feel a tiny bit cheated. If it's not and they don't honor the deal I'll be pissed.
It'd have to completely lose its ability to edit and save root-owned config files and such in order to adhere to App Store guidelines. I use that all of the time.
Really glad to see this at last, but there's a negative side as well… Loren was actually never supposed to give the app to anybody. His 'testers' were never supposed to exist. All this story has done is cause him trouble- people have admitted that they've had the application for weeks, and that's part of the reason why you'll see a few people freaking out on Twitter.
I never thought the new Mac app store would have free non demo apps. In realize that the iOS store has free apps, but there, it's the only way to get apps onto the phone for most people.
If they charge for 2.0, I hope they don't "conveniently" forget about that deal.
(And if they always intended 2.0 to be free, props for sucking $20 out of me.)