Tuesday, February 26, 2013

After reaching Twitter token limit, Falcon Pro now priced at $132 to dissuade new downloads

Falcon Pro for Android Twitter (STOCK)

Falcon Pro developer Joaquim Vergès is caught between a rock and a hard place. His widely-acclaimed Twitter app for Android last week exhausted its allotment of tokens (which give the client permission to access Twitter) far sooner than he anticipated. Even worse, piracy seems to have reared its ugly head, with unauthorized downloads claiming an alarming number of tokens that should have gone to paying customers. And now there's another problem: breaking the token barrier means new downloads are as good as useless, but Verges can't deliver future updates to Falcon Pro if it's no longer in Google Play.


As such, he's decided the best course of action is to hike Falcon Pro's price into the stratosphere: it's currently listed at $132.13 on...


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