Link with iPhone Twitter client
Mark Lyndersay
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If RealMac has no plans to create an iPhone app, then some kind of synchronisation with an existing client, preferably a popular one like Twitterific or TwitterFon, so that items read on the iPhone are marked as read on Socialite would be a really great addition to the project as it develops. It's one of the great advantages of TweetDeck is that synch, but I fear Air.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Nik Fletcher on 20 Nov, 2009 09:24 AM
Hi Mark
Thanks for your message. We're not planning an iPhone client, however I have noted your request for the syncing of read statuses. I can't offer any guarantee of when or if this will appear, but it's something we'll look into.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Nik
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3 Posted by Will Callaghan on 22 Nov, 2009 09:17 AM
Shame you're not planning an iPhone client. RSS, Twitter and Facebook updates in one app (and the ability to tweet between them) would be pretty compelling.
4 Posted by dtoub on 22 Nov, 2009 06:16 PM
I guess I'm hard pressed to understand why an iPhone client is not on the development timetable. Is it a resource issue? Does an iPhone client not make sense?
TweetDeck was able to leverage synchronization to at least temporarily take the focus off of seesmic, its main competitor. Even Echofon, which started out as a (free) iPhone client and a pretty damned good one, now has a Mac desktop version with which it syncs. Same with Tweetie. Given that Socialite doesn't have the market share or awareness that either TweetDeck or Seesmic have, I'm surprised there isn't a strategic imperative to at least match them in functionality, and one approach would be to have an iPhone client.
I'm even more surprised given that the original developers of EventBox (sorry, but Socialite as a name still grates on me) had indicated that an iPhone client was on their dev timeline. Not in the immediate future, but at least in the coming months. Not that RealMac has to do everything that The Cosmic Machine had planned, but strategically, I'm not sure you can be a major player in this space when most of your serious competitors seem to have all been able to develop an iPhone client. Again, if it's a resourcing issue, that's one thing. But if it isn't, then why not do an iPhone client?
Support Staff 5 Posted by Nik Fletcher on 22 Nov, 2009 07:00 PM
Hi David
Thanks for your message. We have our own aims with Socialite: we're simply working to make the application the best social networking app on the Mac. We are a small company (there's seven of us in total) but that doesn't really have a huge bearing on our Mac-only plans.
Until such a time that Twitter offers some kind of 'read' syncing themselves, each and every application has to build its own way to sync - that's something we have to build ontop of any said iPhone app. We'd rather spend that time building a better client on the Mac - and that's what we're about. We're not looking to match what any other application may or may not offer: we're about building a product we're proud of.
Kind Regards,
Nik
Nik Fletcher closed this discussion on 02 Dec, 2009 05:05 PM.