14 DAY TRIAL // Trillian is a pretty famous instant messaging application which is supposed to replace AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and some other clients used for different networks. Trillian enables you to communicate on the web on multiple protocols using only one instance of the application which is quite useful if you use multiple programs at the same time. Because lots of Windows users abandoned their standalone instant messenger and chose Trillian, Cerulean Studios decided to create a new flavor of the application to be able to run on Mac systems. According to Macworld, the Mac version of Trillian is currently in early development stages so it should take a while until the program is released in the wild.
"The user interface layer has been written from scratch for Mac OS X in Objective-C using Cocoa, but the underlying code is the same between Mac OS X, Windows, Flash and iPhone versions, according to the developers," the source mentioned above noted.
As far as I can see, Cerulean Studios wants to make Trillian Alpha, which is also in private beta testings, compatible with Mac in order to allow Apple customers to install it on their systems. However, the Trillian developers sustain the contrary as they stated that the company will treat the Mac version of the application as a different program with other goals than the one for Windows.
"Please note that we'll be treating the OS X build as a completely separate entity as far as our release cycle is concerned; Win32 users will not have to wait for a feature-complete OS X port to see Trillian Astra go gold. Depending on the development process, we may very well release a final build of the Win32 edition before the OS X edition," it is mentioned on the Trillian blogs.