Back of the envelop: App price: $3 User Cap: 100k Apple Cut 30%. Hourly Rate: $150/hr => Max of 35 man-weeks of development supported¹

Quite informative. 35 man-weeks sound like a fair amount of time for a low-complexity novelty app to me, but for a full fledged power user Twitter client it seems waaaay to little to succeed in the long run.

Yes, we do already have a lot of third party twitter client and based on Tapbots’ reactions it seems like things aren’t so bad, at least not for them, but who’s to say that the greatest third party twitter client hasn’t yet been released?