“The loss of ongoing, recurring revenue from Twitterrific is already going to hurt our business significantly, and any refunds will come directly out of our pockets – not Twitter’s and not Apple’s.”
Twitterrific was the first Twitter desktop client, one of the first apps in the App Store, and the app whose bluebird mascot Twitter later adopted as its own logo. Twitter killed it with an unannounced, undocumented policy change and no warning. Now the Iconfactory has to beg subscribers not to ask Apple for refunds. Twitter breaks the deal, and the small developer eats the bill.