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> The company said it made the decision to abandon development on Windows so it could “better focus on enhancing your TweetDeck experience,”

Haha, what a bald-faced lie.

They absolutely murdered tweetdeck by buying it a few years ago and releasing a "remade" version with 90% of the features removed. Officially abandoning the desktop client just means they've finally finished what they began and taken the old guy behind the shed.

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> Officially abandoning the desktop client just means they've finally finished what they began and taken the old guy behind the shed.

Do you think they are really abandoning it for all platforms? I was thinking how different the world was that the Mac is given more attention than Windows now. I remember many years when the opposite was true.

Probably because they can share most of the codebase between Mac and iOS.

It's built in html/CSS/js

It's just a chromium packaged website really. Hardly any extra development required

TweetDeck was (is?) built on Adobe Air, which had the unique position of delivering the awful Flash experience on every OS without anything resembling a native widget set.

The old tweetdeck desktop client was built on Air, but regardless of that it delivered features. The new tweetdeck by twitter was native windows and had no features.

They just released a UWP client for Windows 10.

If you're talking about Tweeten, which is just a mini web browser showing a specialized part of their website, then you fell right for their marketing schemes.

Seems to be an official client: http://m.windowscentral.com/twitter-windows-10-pcs-and-table...

We were talking about Tweetdeck, if you change the context of the conversation, it's polite to actually mention that.

As for that "client", it's just twitter. And it's just Twitter in a mini web browser. It's not tweetdeck. It's literally only useful for people who for some reason can't go to the actual website. It offers no extra features.

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