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		<title>Quick App Update: Boxcar 2.0 Push Notification for Twitter, Facebook, and Email &#8212; Via In-App Purchase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rene Ritchie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[App Store Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boxcar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boxcar 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in app purchase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[push notification]]></category>

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Boxcar [$2.99 + In-App Purchases - <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321493542&#038;mt=8">iTunes link</a>], a push-enabler for iPhone and iPod touch originally launched with support for a couple of Twitter clients. Then it added a]]></description>
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<p>Boxcar [$2.99 + In-App Purchases - <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321493542&#038;mt=8">iTunes link</a>], a push-enabler for iPhone and iPod touch originally launched with support for a couple of Twitter clients. Then it added a bunch more. As several Twitter clients now offer support for push themselves, what&#8217;s Boxcar to do for a 2.0 encore? Add Facebook and Email push, of course, as well as Twitter Search and Twitter Trends.</p>

<p>Okay, sure, some major Twitter clients like Tweetie and Twitterrific still haven&#8217;t added push support, so if they&#8217;re your go-to apps, Boxcar may still be a go-to middleapp. Likewise, while Google supports Gmail now via GoogleSync, Exchange users can&#8217;t hand over their only ActiveSync slot, so email push-enablers still have their place. Lastly &#8212; and it&#8217;s a big lastly, while Facebook 3.0 for iPhone just launched, it did so without push support, and so if you don&#8217;t want to wait for 3.1 to get your push on, well, here&#8217;s your middleapp for that as well.</p>

<p>But&#8230; it comes with a price. The $2.99 app price comes with one service built in. If you want to add another, like Facebook, you need to make an additional $0.99 in-app purchase. Email, that&#8217;s another $0.99. Twitter Trends and Twitter Search likewise. And since you can have multiple Twitter, Email, Twitter Search, etc. set up, you can go from that base $2.99 to $4.99, even $9.99 or more. Basically, you pay for what&#8217;s valuable to you. If you&#8217;re working customer service and being push-alerted when your company (or your competitor!) and the word &#8220;problem&#8221; hits Twitter, $0.99 is a steal. If you don&#8217;t care about trends or searches, or Facebook for that matter, you get a cheaper entry price for the app.</p>

<p>So, whether this particular app is worth it to you, and whether or not the in-app purchase upgrades are worth it to you, we&#8217;re liking options and being able to choose &#8212; and pay for &#8212; only what we find of value.</p>

<p>So, if you need push now and you decide to try Boxcar 2.0 out, let us know how it works for you, and what you think of the pricing model!</p>

<p>More screen shots after the break&#8230;</p>

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