Re:App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users
by jasonlotito on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:08PM
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I understand what you are saying, but it is just a years worth of service. That's the only thing you are guaranteed. You are banking on good will and good karma to carry you.
> he can pull it off.
Pull what off? What is "something interesting?" You said it was a service where "the users are the customers instead of the advertisers." But nothing of the sort is promised.
> It's an experiment akin to what was done with Diaspora…
And we've learned nothing from that? You've given $50 for a years worth of service in return. You hope for more, and you hope for specific things, but none of that is promised.
What's so wrong with asking these expectations be clarified? Isn't that the entire point of App.net, to be different, to be about the users? If so, then why isn't that made clear?
Nothing I see promises anything different then you see with other social networks. Except in this one, you are paying them $50.
It's an experiment akin to what was done with Diaspora, just this time with someone who has both the experience and the track record to demonstrate he can pull it off.