Let your tweets incubate with Birdhouse for iPhone

You're entitled to your opinion. There wasn't a press release for this app, though, so I'm afraid it's just plain old hackery.

Thats fair. I would just expect some indication that this app has actually been tested and both sides of the coin have been analyzed. Lately, I have found that the readers of your blog are more knowledgeable of the products that are posted about. Many times your bloggers have touted some new app or utility for mac or the iphone with seemingly know research or even a hint of the negatives. I love all things  and the wonderful developers who create the apps that are available to us, but not all these apps are spectacular. I think this one is included. This article seems to fluff an app that isn't really worth while and is perhaps overpriced.

I realize that this article did not have "Review:" in its title, so perhaps I'm asking for a bit more than is expected. It seems to me however that this blog's purpose, as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, is not to spout corporate propaganda, but rather to objectively report on all things apple. So if you are going to tell us about a cool new app for the tweeple, then take some time to tell us that it might be overpriced and maybe even that it does something that cheaper apps can/will do, if not now, than likely in future versions.

Stop leaving it up to us (readers and commenters) to do the research for you. I'm pretty sure you're going to have to start paying some of your readers if you continue to half ass these articles and leave it for us to hash out.

Michael Rose, thank you for replying. I should have elaborated in my original post. I meant no disrespect. I simply expect more, and want you all to expect more from each other.

We get it dude. You don't find Twitter useful. Start commenting about things you like.

For the record, Twitter is an extremely powerful tool. If you don't find value in it, it does not mean it's useless. It's just not for you.

There's a reason for that, Kinto -- @lonelysandwich is one of the app's authors, and he stars in the demo video.

ah-ha! i overlooked the 'creators' link up there before... thx

I'd say no, a save-for-later feature wouldn't make this app useless. I use both this and Tweetie (and I beta tested Birdhouse for a few months), and they're both indispensable to me now.

Also, I don't think Tweetie would concentrate too much on adding this feature. Maybe a rudimentary save-for-later, but nothing like what Birdhouse does.

As for those who think it's useless, well, yeah, if you don't have a use for it, then don't buy it. There are those (most notably those on http://favrd.textism.com/) that love this app because it allows you to plant a seed of an idea now, work on it later, and publish when it's ready. If that's not how you use Twitter (and I would say that those of us who do are in the stark minority), then it's not for you.

Birdhouse and Tweetie work really well together.

I agree. This will be a wasted $3.99 when iPhone OS 3.0 drops. Why pay for this when you can make a note with your specified thoughts and cut-and-paste into your desired twitter app? The only buyers will be those ignorant to 3.0.

Notes doesn't have a character count feature.

Notes doesn't let you easily un-publish/re-publish with changes like Birdhouse does.

Also, your list of Notes would get filled up with your drafts.

People make grocery list apps and to-do list apps for the same reason: They do that specific task better than Notes can.

Why?

More than one thing is allowed to share the same name, as long as they're not in the same market which could lead to confusion.

I think it highly unlikely someone would confuse a skateboard with a Twitter Notepad!