Comment by natesm | Hacker News Reader

Comment by natesm | Hacker News Reader

I don't like that they ported the aesthetic. I'm not a fan of it to begin with, especially on iPad, but at least there it gets to take over the entire screen. On the desktop, the apps I use most of the time[1] still look like Mac apps, so this would stick out like a sore thumb.

I really, really like Twitter for Mac, even if it's abandoned now. I'm not sure if Tapbots has fixed it (and I'm not going to spend $20 on a client I don't like the visuals of to find out), but Twitter for Mac absolutely beat Tweetbot Alpha in scrolling (using TwUI helps quite a bit most likely). So I'll keep using that for now on my external monitor where it doesn't look blurry.

[1]:

* Safari

* iTerm2

* Xcode

* Messages

* MacVim

* iTunes

* Mail

They look like Mac apps because, with 2 exceptions, they're all Apple apps. The Tweetbots apps needed to have the same design.

edit: I know about the bug you mentioned and it looks like they've fixed it.

Contacts, Notes, and Calendar are also Apple apps, and, well, yeah.

However, everything that Panic makes is incredible in both quality and Mac-ness. I use Transmit and love it, didn't think of it when making that list since it's not something you have open all of the time.

Then, look at Panic's iOS apps. They feel like iOS apps. Diet Coda and Coda are companion products, but they aren't identical. They each look and feel how an application on their respective platforms should feel (which is fairly open ended on iOS, but restrictive on OS X due to the shared desktop canvas).

Few other apps I use or have used in the past, non-Apple, fit in pretty well:

* Adium

* Colloquy

* Chrome

* NetNewsWire

* Reeder

* Sparrow

There was a lot of controversy when Tweetbot for iPhone was released and people were complaining about the same design thing, that it's not iOS-like and now a lot of people love it. But I see your point. I've been using it since it first came out as alpha and I had no problem with the design choices especially because it looks a lot like the iPad app.

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