supermac18:
Talk about mobile computing! I want one.
Thanks StadtPirat! I don’t understand German, but I think I get this:
Immer Informiert via Menü-Leiste
“Immer Informiert” sounds exactly right to me!
Facebook client shows what Mac Twittering should be!
I’m not a big fan of facebook, because I’m not a big fan of “friending” my own Mom. But the Facebook client menulet is *awesome*. Shows the beauty of the menu-item-as-client! Twit Menulet got there first, though.
Twitter on Mac in the days of the iPad
The iPad is an abomination: closed, closed, closed. But, as the authors of a Twitter client, we have to consider.
The issues are not dissimilar to those of the iPhone. The iPhone is closed, but there is a certain plausible deniability to the arguments offered for its crippling: the phone are connected to the cellular telephone system, which is pretty shaky, so it “had to be done”. I’ve always hated this argument, don’t believe it, but I guess I didn’t have a choice. And Twitter owes its popularity in large part to the iPhone, I believe (the best mobile platform for Twittering), so perhpas I wanted to believe this.
For the iPad there is no fig leaf. The iPad is a computer that’s been specifically configured not to allow running programs. This means that, as makers of an iPad Twitter client, we would have to give 30% of our revenue to Apple. WHY?
In short, we won’t be developing for the iPad any time soon. Will others? I bet they will. But they shouldn’t.
