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Loren Brichter

Loren is the founder of atebits, makers of the popular Twitter client Tweetie (which is now the official Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac). He founded atebits after leaving Apple, having worked on the original iPhone.

March 5, 2011

So in love with the default background picture.

As for apps, Photos, Calendar, Maps, iPod. All great. I’m not sure how to express how – just…. so – perfect the iPad felt to me when I first touched one. Once I can code on it my Mac is gone.

PCalc is my go-to calculator, unless I’m going to be doing something complicated then Soulver is brilliant. (I use both on iPhone). OmniGraffle is really handy those few times I need it, wish it was a bit snappier but I can appreciate the complexity. Air Display is nice, though with the hardware orientation lock gone accidental rotations are painful. I really only use Square on the iPhone, but have it on here because the app is so beautiful.

A bunch of the other little-used Apple apps are bundled together. iWork blows me away. A few of my favorite games are together: Drop7, Angry Birds, Deep Green, Implode!, The Incident.

In my dock, a stunning Twitter icon. A few of the essentials: Simplenote, iBooks, Kindle, Instapaper. Reeder is great on iPad. Flipboard is fantastic.