They add a nice smidgen of customizability. They’re not that far off from the default - certainly not enough to cause you to confuse Twitterrific for another app. Apparently, this is because the alternative icons are too different from the standard app icon or, in some way, are not reflective of the app’s branding.įirst off, I’ve seen the alternative icons Heber is referring to here. To be clear, it appears that Twitterrific was rejected for using the new icon changing API to allow users to change the app‘s icon. We could have a light or a dark icon because we have light and dark themes. We could change the app icon on each update but letting the user choose between those same icons at will is TOTALLY AGAINST THE RULES. Try to do something fun and get an App Store rejection for it. That's why, as part of the inaugural iMore hall of fame, we're honoring Craig Hockenberry, Gedeon Maheux, and the granddaddy of all Twitter apps, Twitterrific.Twitterrific Update Rejected for Alternative User-Selectable Icons ⇥ Maheux and Lanham shared their thoughts with us as well, in an episode of Iterate, and Hockenberry and Heber did likewise for an upcoming episode of Debug (check back on Friday for that).įrom a brand new and yet-to-be-released API in 2007, through intense competition, facing the often opaque constraints of the platform they built on, and increasing hostility from the service they targeted, the team at the Iconfactory have not only persevered, but triumphed, and in doing so they've helped inspire the developer community and delight the customer base alike. When presented with a clean slate, you're very careful what goes on it. The visual design is obviously a fresh start, but everything under the covers is as well. Hockenberry elaborated on the thinking behind the new version on Furbo:Īs soon as you launch Twitterrific 5, you'll realize that it's a clean slate. $2.99 on sale - Download now (opens in new tab).Once again completely re-coded and re-designed, and once again returning to the core idea of Twitterrific, the team took everything that made the original Twitterrific great and boldly re-interpreted it for the current and next generation of Twitter users. Hockenberry and Lanham both shared their thoughts on the new release on as well, on Furbo and dlanham respectively.įast forward, and late 2012 saw Hockenberry, Maheux, and Lanham, as well as the Iconfactory's Sean Heber, release Twitterrific 5. This will hopefully allow us to avoid the pitfalls of having one version wildly out of sync with the rest (like the current Mac version). Once all the versions are in sync, we can concentrate on bringing updates to Twitterrific across all platforms simultaneously. Free of the pressure to include everything but the kitchen sink, Twitterrific now starts fresh and will gain new users. All these things aside, rebooting the app in this fashion has allowed us to evaluate each feature on its own merits. Add to this the long-awaited full landscape support that our users have been crying out for and Twitterrific is a whole new experience on the iPhone. Twitterrific 3 for iPhone benefits from all the work that has already gone into the iPad including: proper retweets, lists, saved searches and more. Maheux wrote about the tough-love approach on gedblog: Twitterrific had always been focused on the reading experience, and it returned to that focus with passion and discipline. Twitterrific 3, which launched alongside the iPad in 2010, saw the Iconfactory not only add a tablet-optimized interface, but step back and return to core functionality. Louie Mantia, who was also at the Iconfactory at the time and contributed some elements, elaborated on it in a post on Mantia. The Iconfactory managed to keep the surface layer of Twitterrific remarkably clean, but also managed to tuck away a lot of functionality thanks to deeper levels of interface. By then other Twitter clients had appeared and feature escalation had begun. Twitterrific 2 arrived in May of 2009, with Iconfactory designer David Lanham joining the team to handle the heavy interface lifting.
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