Comments on: Review: Echofon For Mac

By: Darktouch.Net

Darktouch.Net — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:30:25 +0000

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By: robertdel12

robertdel12 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:52:32 +0000

Well it does come at a cost of ads. I'm not sure if the Mac version will be free when its out of beta which kind of annoys me.

Yeah they seem to make many promises and never deliver. I've been waiting for an update to tweetie for a while now and they seem to just not care. Thats why I love echofon, for now they seem to care about who uses their software and updates when they can.

By: Rewai

Rewai — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:43:44 +0000

Interested to hear that it's all free.

I'm ok about paying modest amounts for stuff I use, I like a business model that's sustainable, it means the product is likely to exist and develop to being even better.

What particularly annoyed me about Tweetie for Mac is that I paid them to support them, but they seem to have taken my Tweetie for Mac money and invested it in the iPhone App. I'm actually quite annoyed by their approach and their repeated but empty promises that they are doing an upgrade.

By: robertdel12

robertdel12 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:33:00 +0000

Ah yes I did leave that out, I am planning on reviewing the iPhone version here soon and I will bring that up. Its actually pretty awesome that all this is free and the service from echofon is much better than tweetie which costs money.

By: Rewai

Rewai — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:22:04 +0000

Albeit in Beta, moved from Tweetie to Echofon for Mac. Tired of no development of Tweetie for Mac.

One simple thing that encouraged me to switch was the ability to "Unfavourite" which is not possible on Tweetie. They said they're going to fix it and brought out an update and six months later it's still not fixed.

On switching to Echofon I discovered a fantastic feature I don't see mentioned in this review, which is the integration between the Mac and iPhone App. Whatever device you use, if you go to the other device, Echofon syncs your unread Tweets.

By: robertdel12

robertdel12 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:29:18 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I had the very same problem with tweetie about 6 months ago. I dont know what resolved the issue but it ended up stopping after a little while. Yeah I agree I tried tweetdeck and its just way too crowded.

By: Rick Hornsby

Rick Hornsby — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:21:35 +0000

Switched over to Tweetdeck last night. Really like (and miss) Echofon's UI, but last few days have been really awful – network issues all over the place. No idea why, because TweetDeck worked fine, and so did the twitter website while Echofon was acting up. Again, the Echofon UI I believe is superior. I might try it again, because the crazy-busy Tweetdeck UI and all the tiny buttons are just too much. And I'm a tech/programmer – so I generally get complex systems.

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:30:49 +0000

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