Re:Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac C...
by mattparcher on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:58PM
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I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Apple to build a Twitter client. They’re simply not interested in putting in that kind of work for a third party’s product/service, without incredibly strong incentive.
I believe the last time they did anything like this was on the iPhone, when they built custom apps for YouTube and Google Maps—but they did that almost out of necessity for the user experience, since there were no usable alternatives for those services. (Additionally, with the YouTube app, Apple wanted to encourage adoption of "HTML5" H.264 video, because the majority of video content still required Adobe Flash, unplayable on the iPhone.)
This is all besides the fact that Twitter is now strongly discouraging clients, which apparently now includes their own…
Re:Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac C...
by Tycho on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:20PM
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On the other hand, they already added the Twitter integration to the right-click menu, and there were rumours recently that Apple were in talks to buy a large stake of Twitter Inc.
I'm hoping that the explanation is along the lines of Apple building their own Twitter client to replace the existing one.
Twitter having its own desktop client made it exciting like a whole new internet protocol: Usenet, the Web, IRC, email, Twitter. Having it just residing on that terrible website demeans it.
Having said that, the iPad client is vastly superior to the desktop one anyway. Although the select-text-and-tweet-it feature was a workflow with a unusually profound impact on social media.