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Paid Upgrades at the App Store

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This morning I realized that Tweetie 2 was available. I opened the App Store on my iPhone and it wasn’t in the Updates section. It took me a sec, then I decided to search for it.

Sure enough, there it was.

It got me thinking: Why doesn’t the App Store have an option for developers to release “Paid updates”? Without that option it'll make it harder for app developers to promote their updates, since people can continue using the original application blissfully unaware of the update.

As an aside: Tweetie 2 is the best way to interact with Twitter on any platform.