The Online Thought-Dump of Brittany Stevens

If you’re a fellow Apple enthusiast, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is more exciting than Christmas morning. (To those of you who are more apathetic about technology, I’m not even kidding.)

Today is the day we get to see Mr. Steve Jobs take the stage, and we can congratulate him on his health. He’s fighting hard, and he’s got a mass of folks rooting for his well-being. Today is also the day we get to see what the Apple team has been diligently working on for the past year: Lion, iOS 5, iCloud, etc. But really, today is the day Apple changes the world… again.

Hold on tight because today is going to be big. I can feel it.

Squire is currently accepting testers for their alpha build, and if you’re interested and think you could help Fernando and Jonatan out with making this app the best it can be, feel free to sign up.

Along the way of Twitter acquiring atebits and users abandoning all hope for an updated Tweetie for Mac client, people moved on. Countless Twitter desktop clients began surfacing around the web, folks found one they liked and never looked back.

Not me.

Although, I did try a few: Bluebird, Hibari, Weet… Something still wasn’t clicking.

When I find a brand that generates quality products and services, I raise an eyebrow and step in line.

Tweetie is one of those brands I couldn’t stray from. Even when Tweetie 2 for iOS debuted with an updated price tag, it was still the best Twitter app I’ve ever used. Even without native retweets and filtering and whatever else people said they needed in the Tweetie desktop client, I stayed with it.

I won’t deny that I felt left in the dark as one of atebits’ paying customers. I felt that my needs, though few, were not only being ignored, but going completely unheard. Still, every other Twitter desktop client I tested, I compared to Tweetie, and it never measured up. So I stayed with it. I stayed loyal.

After seeing Twitter for Mac on Apple’s new Mac App Store, gleaming there in the “What’s Hot” category in all of its monochrome glory, I felt relieved that Tweetie wasn’t dead. Sure, it was different, branded not under the identity I’ve come to trust, but under another brand I’ve also come to love.

So, here’s to Loren for a job well done. His impeccable eye for design has brought him amazing things.

Cheers to loyalty and light in the future.