Collaborative chat service HipChat has been available on multiple platforms including Mac and iOS for some time, but the desktop iteration has until now existed as an Adobe Air app. Citing an outpouring of requests from its users and an internal unhappiness with Air as a platform, Atlassian has launched a beta of a fully-native Mac client that addresses technical shortcomings and adds new features.
Speed and stability are the obvious initial upsides of the move away from Air, and Atlassian claims that the native app isn't just faster, but reduces CPU o
