September 2009
6 posts
Tweetie 2 upgrade price.
I have heard a lot of people complaining about the $2.99 upgrade price for Tweetie 2. It is foolish that people think tweetie’s developer, Loren Brichter, has time to rewrite the entire app and include a ton of new features without charging anything. The fact of the matter is that he is only asking for $2.99 from you in return for the hours of work he has put into making a kick-ass app! I...
Matt: i know this sounds weird
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If You Printed The Internet →
This is obviously not accurate since the amount of content on the internet is always changing, but it’s still pretty frickin’ awesome!
A bit of obvious perspective
mrgan:
In 1983, an Atari 2600 game such as Galaxian cost $32.99. If that sounds like a lot, remember that in 2009 dollars that’s more than $70.
The system itself retailed at $199, which is about $700 in 2009 dollars. The market was almost 20 million units strong, which is something like 25 million consoles in 2009 (adjusting for population growth).
So, also in 2009, when someone makes an...
