Count me as one of those Mac users who are EXTREMELY disappointed to hear that @ivory for #macOS is going to be a… Catalyst app. Might be OK as a stop-gap measure, but I will still be in the hunt for a REAL Mac app for Mastodon. There’s already more than enough Catalyst crap in my life.
@betalogue Half of Apple's apps are Catalyst apps as well. Not sure what the issue is? The only thing that's important is that it behaves like a Mac app and performance is good.
@ivory I want to believe you. I don’t want apps that behave like Mac apps. I want apps that ARE Mac apps. If the two can become indistinguishable, great. What I have seen so far, including from Apple, suggests otherwise. I am just saying I am a very picky Mac user. I won’t put up with things that just more or less feel or look like the real thing. I am always seeking apps that are simple, efficient, and as glitch-free as possible. Sadly, Mac Tweetbot has quite a few bugs that were never fixed…
@betalogue And that's because it was a Mac app based on Appkit and not Catalyst. 🙃 The whole point of going with Catalyst is so we can develop the Mac app alongside the iOS app without it falling so far behind. Even being a Catalyst app, there's a ton of work involved to make things behave more like they should on Mac. If it was being done in Appkit, we wouldn't ship it for at least a year and by then it would already be far behind the iOS version.
@ivory @betalogue Even at this early stage I think Ivory is a better Mac app than the last version of Tweetbot. And it’s improving in that regard each week.
@gruber @ivory @betalogue I have the same opinion about the iOS version of Ivory as I am an iPad Pro user.
#iloveivory