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Twitter for Mac Now Available From Mac App Store
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I'm glad its not just me who feels like this. No matter how much I try to get used to Tweetdeck or Tweetbot, I just find them unintuitive and the UI to be too busy. And no, I can't quite explain it.
So its good to see the official app back.
The website does dark mode, some notifications (notPush) and generally feels really well made. If you haven’t yet, try the desktop version. It’s actually pretty good.
I am surprised that open source and free apps made by individuals have dedicated apps but billion dollar companies do not care about building one.
Unfortunately, this is definitely the way we are going. With people's mindset that software should be free, Mac prices, people settling for iOS/Android device only, Mac apps will be a thing of the past except for few here and there.
I am not sure how it was profitable for companies to build a Mac OS app only that run on PowerPC back in the late 90s when people had to drive to the store to purchase a copy and Mac market share was like 5% of what it is today, but today its not worth it anymore even with world wide market access, cutting the middle man, a much larger user base, and online transaction of money and downloaded software.
Unfortunately, this is definitely the way we are going. With people's mindset that software should be free, Mac prices, people settling for iOS/Android device only, Mac apps will be a thing of the past except for few here and there.
I am not sure how it was profitable for companies to build a Mac OS app only that run on PowerPC back in the late 90s when people had to drive to the store to purchase a copy and Mac market share was like 5% of what it is today, but today its not worth it anymore even with world wide market access, cutting the middle man, a much larger user base, and online transaction of money and downloaded software.
I see it differently. Before Catalina we didn't have the official Twitter app on macOS. Now, and because of Catalina we have it. The app does what is supposed to do. We shouldn't be dramatising everything in this forum. Catalina brings some technologies (Marzipan and SwiftUI) that make the promise that we will keep seeing great apps on the Mac in the future. These technologies will also help developers bring their apps to both iOS and macOS without needing to rewrite everything from scratch. The Mac has a small market, so it is good to see Apple recognising that and trying to help developers make apps for the Mac, by making the whole platform more attractive.
With SwiftUI, we're going to see a fresh new barrage of poor quality apps into the market. With the endorsement from Apple, this is going to bring so much more garbage than Electron ever did.
"Port your iPad app to macOS with one checkbox"
Quality software used to be one of the cornerstones of the Mac ecosystem, and with a glorified web wrapper becoming the standard from Apple, I am not hopeful for the future.
"Port your iPad app to macOS with one checkbox"
Quality software used to be one of the cornerstones of the Mac ecosystem, and with a glorified web wrapper becoming the standard from Apple, I am not hopeful for the future.
Night Owl is still my favorite Mac-based Twitter app. Nothing even comes close to it for iOS, which is a shame.
Gotta be honest, I think the PWA for Twitter is much better than this app. I imagine (and hope) devs put more focus into those. I've also been using the PWA for Outlook at work and it's so much better than the desktop app. Zero bloat.
"Top tweets" are the default and it jumps back to that if you don't use Twitter for like 12 hours. Could be an even shorter period. This is on every platform though so that's just generally upsetting with Twitter. Just let me stay on "newest tweets first" please?
Promoted posts are annoying but in Safari, you can at least block them with an adblocker as opposed to the app.
You should read what I wrote (and maybe even what I was responding to) before you respond to it with something irrelevant.
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The back button being in the upper right corner is extremely awkward, especially full screen.
Why can't I use the left arrow as a back button?
Why can't I use the left arrow as a back button?
Just click on the "star" (with 2 stars next to it) in the top right. It will allow you to view latest tweets. Only issue is you will reset to top tweets first, every so often (at least the iOS version does).
I just mistakenly put the app into fullscreen mode, not a very good implementation really. Just pillar boxed the feed rather than fill the screen.
I agree, in full screen mode the app is not looking good. Especially on an iMac..
Well how about that? You need the latest MacOS installed. Won't install on my mid-2011 iMac.
This is the first step on my personal drudging slump down the road to enforced software obsolescence.
This is the first step on my personal drudging slump down the road to enforced software obsolescence.
This is because it uses Marzipan, a technology only found in Catalina. The cost of bringing and supporting Marzipan to older macOS releases would be too big and Apple of course wouldn't even think about doing that. This is the cost of evolution.
That's not SwiftUI, that's Catalyst. SwiftUI will arguably make UI development easier so we might end up with better quality apps.