<story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Threads is available on iOS and Android&lt;p&gt;I hate that computer has become a second tier citizen. My phone is a great little computing device, but my computer is an even better, large, comfortable, multitasking, ergonomic computing device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koyote</author><text>I hate this new trend with a passion.&lt;p&gt;A new low-cost airline just launched in Australia. The only way to book? By installing their app...&lt;p&gt;I am not sure how the non-tech masses book their trips, but I usually have a dozen tabs open, comparing prices and flight times across a range of aggregators&amp;#x2F;airlines.&lt;p&gt;Even if I know which airlines I am flying I often have several tabs open to compare prices across dates.&lt;p&gt;All of this is not possible with an app.</text></comment>
<story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Threads is available on iOS and Android&lt;p&gt;I hate that computer has become a second tier citizen. My phone is a great little computing device, but my computer is an even better, large, comfortable, multitasking, ergonomic computing device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve shrugged off a lot of mobile computing limitations because, well, if I wanted to do that I&amp;#x27;d just use a computer.  But it occurs to me that for a lot of people they don&amp;#x27;t actually have a regular computer now.</text></comment>