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Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by inthewoods »

noahmbarr wrote: post #30

IMO, this acquisition could have been motivated by 1 or more of the following: (1) Need them in house. Many larger companies have been contracting their app development to ISVs. Some ISVs have been quietly purchased by their largest customers, as mobile has become more "core". Crashlytics was a toolmaker that Twitter and some others used. Perhaps, Twitter thought these tools were "core", or too important to not have…

I don't see how it works as a Trojan horse. I don't think it plays - all the apps using Crashlytics will switch to a different service rather than have their data flow to Twitter. No way Expedia wants their data flowing to Twitter (or anyone else).

Looks to me like a talent acquisition. While Crashlytics was likely popular, I think they likely had limited revenue opportunities given Hockey App and Crittercism.

Really - it's a race to the bottom on these crash services. Switching costs would seem to be pretty low - so my guess is that the VCs saw a quick out.

Congrats to the team for the acquisition.

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by inthewoods »

jazzychad wrote: post #20

Pure speculation: This fits in well with other sdk platforms that complete the loop for advertising companies focused on mobile. Burstly (mobile ads) bought TestFlight (beta app distribution sdk). Flurry (mobile ads) gives away a free analytics sdk (Flurry Analytics). Now Twitter (ad company) has Crashlytics (crash reporting sdk). In each case, the free offering is a trojan horse to get insight into tons of aggregate…

Or it could just be a talent acquisition. :)

Per my post above, I don't see how any company using Crashlytics continues to use them going forward. If you are a publisher, the last thing you'd want is Twitter having your data.

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by robkwok »

nileshbhojani wrote: post #33

Not a bad thing if this is going to reduce the number of time Twitter crashes :-). Not so good for the current clients of Crashytics though. Are the other tools/services that provide good crash analytics?

Have you checked out Crittercism? http://www.crittercism.com :)

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by saddino »

inthewoods wrote: post #31
noahmbarr wrote: post #30

IMO, this acquisition could have been motivated by 1 or more of the following: (1) Need them in house. Many larger companies have been contracting their app development to ISVs. Some ISVs have been quietly purchased by their largest customers, as mobile has become more "core". Crashlytics was a toolmaker that Twitter and some others used. Perhaps, Twitter thought these tools were "core", or too important to not have…

I don't see how it works as a Trojan horse. I don't think it plays - all the apps using Crashlytics will switch to a different service rather than have their data flow to Twitter. No way Expedia wants their data flowing to Twitter (or anyone else). Looks to me like a talent acquisition. While Crashlytics was likely popular, I think they likely had limited revenue opportunities given Hockey App and Crittercism. Really…

I agree. We were an early Crashlytics adopter that also used TestFlight for Ad Hoc testing. When TestFlight launched TestFlight Live and introduced its own crash logging service, we saw no need to keep both in the app and shut off Crashlytics. Anecdotal of course, but I think the theory here has merit: crash logging is a feature, not a business model, and the Crashlytics team made a good move here.

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by fsiaf »

loceng wrote: post #14
upthepunx wrote: post #11

This is likely about Twitter getting creepy. Every online advertising company is worried about the growth of the mobile environment, because it's harder to do all of the tracking that they're used to on those platforms. There are no cookies that follow you across apps. The cookie equivalent in the mobile world is the SDK. Rather than scattering your "like"/"tweet"/"follow" buttons all over the web to track users' mov…

Interesting thought. Any idea how many apps use Crashlytics? There's lots of value in knowing what potential competitor numbers are or even for other strategic reasons.

We use crashlytics for all our apps at App Camelot http://appcamelot.com

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by bugsense »

nileshbhojani wrote: post #33

Not a bad thing if this is going to reduce the number of time Twitter crashes :-). Not so good for the current clients of Crashytics though. Are the other tools/services that provide good crash analytics?

You should definitely check out Bugsense (http://www.bugsense.com)

Re: Twitter acquires Crashlytics

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Post by luxiou »

robkwok wrote: post #35
nileshbhojani wrote: post #33

Not a bad thing if this is going to reduce the number of time Twitter crashes :-). Not so good for the current clients of Crashytics though. Are the other tools/services that provide good crash analytics?

Have you checked out Crittercism? http://www.crittercism.com :)

crittercism has prevented us from losing about $150K worth of users.
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