{"id":407,"date":"2008-10-09T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-10-09T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:34:18","slug":"twinkle-bought-by-tapulous-beginning-of-consolidation-in-the-app-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/twinkle-bought-by-tapulous-beginning-of-consolidation-in-the-app-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinkle bought by Tapulous? Beginning of consolidation in the iPhone app market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was not paying close attention, but when I updated Twinkle last night, and then used it today, I got a message saying <a href=\"http:\/\/tapulous.com\/twinkle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tapulous <\/a>bought them or it. \u00a0(Wish I screenshot it).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">{update}<\/span><\/strong> I was just informed they have always owned them. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to send an email and try to get more info on what I saw. \u00a0Have anyone else seen such messages?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? \u00a0Not much except its the first example I&#8217;ve seen of iPhone app creators starting to buy up other apps. I expect to see a lot more of this over time. I would expect that in the next few months we will see more and more consolidation. Perhaps in Q2&#8217;09 we should see super shops that not only spit out lots of apps, but buy and sell apps like commodities. Lets hope we do not see the wild movements like we are seeing in the stock market. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Panic based supply-side economics or the great toilet paper panic of 2020\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/panic-based-supply-side-economics-or-the-great-toilet-paper-panic-of-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Panic based supply-side economics or the great toilet paper panic of 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Why my Tesla M3 feels like my first iPhone and my M3day plus 30.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/why-my-tesla-m3-feels-like-my-first-iphone-and-my-m3day-plus-30\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why my Tesla M3 feels like my first iPhone and my M3day plus 30.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Bidding For An iPhone 6 Prototype On eBay Is Up To $94,000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/the-bidding-for-an-iphone-6-prototype-on-ebay-is-up-to-94000\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Bidding For An iPhone 6 Prototype On eBay Is Up To $94,000<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Apple patent application reinvents remote control for the smartphone age\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/apple-patent-application-reinvents-remote-control-for-the-smartphone-age\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple patent application reinvents remote control for the smartphone age<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"iOS 8.0.1 May Have A Link To Apple Maps Fail From 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/ios-8-0-1-may-have-a-link-to-apple-maps-fail-from-2012\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">iOS 8.0.1 May Have A Link To Apple Maps Fail From 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not paying close attention, but when I updated Twinkle last night, and then used it today, I got a message saying Tapulous bought them or it. \u00a0(Wish I screenshot it). {update} I was just informed they have always owned them. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to send an email and try to get more info on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/twinkle-bought-by-tapulous-beginning-of-consolidation-in-the-app-market\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,91],"tags":[2339,2353],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-random-thoughts","tag-iphone","tag-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-6z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}