Here's one of the biggest differences between the Android Market and the iTunes App Store. Who better to say it than Seesmic themselves. Seesmic is a Twitter client for both iPhone and Android, so it's not likely the developers are too biased over one platform or another.
Last night, Twitter's API/JSON feeds to most clients started passing wonky characters that either killed the app or simply resulted in nothing updating. Here's how Seesmic communicated to the different OS Users:
11:18am
Update available for Seesmic for Android 1.4.3 - Issues with Twitter API have been addressed. Thanks!
1:15pm
RT loic seesmic iphone crashes are due to a Twitter issue they say they will fix soon http://ping.fm/EqZok
For one system, they fixed AND released an update to the market. The other? They just have to sit back, because they know by the time they fixed it, it'd still be 2 weeks before they'd show up in the App store (or less, but whatever, it's not NOW).
Twitter was screwing things up, and Levelupstudio, the guys who make my Twitter client of choice, Touiteur, had an updated version waiting for me when I woke up today. Thanks guys, and thanks Google for having a flexible market for when things like this happen.
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