Apple Design Awards 2008
Apple held their 2008 Apple Design Awards at WWDC last night. We love developers. What makes the Mac platform so awesome is the cool applications that these creative developers make. It is with great pleasure that we tell you who won the Apple Design Awards for 2008. Best Student Runner Up: Flow
Best Student Winner: Squirrel
Graphics and Media Runner Up: Fotomagico
Graphics and Media Winner: ScreenFlow
Leopard User Experience Runner Up: CheckOut
Leopard User Experience Winner: Macnification
Leopard Game Runner Up: Command and Conquer 3
Leopard Game Winner: Guitar Hero 3
Best Leopard Application Runner Up: TimeLine 3D
Best Leopard Application Winner: ScreenFlow
Best iPhone Web App Runner Up: Associated Press
Best iPhone Web App Winner: Remember the Milk
Best iPhone Game: Enigmo
Best iPhone Entertainment App: AOL Radio
Best iPhone Social Networking: Twitterrific
Best iPhone Productivity App: OmniFocus
Best iPhone Health App: MIM
[via wisequark on Twitter]
Updates: Yes, we added links!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
tukan said 10:19AM on 6-12-2008
no links? like the Squirrel, got to use it more to switch from Cashbox though (yest, it is ancient but super simple - just what I need)
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mashby said 10:23AM on 6-12-2008
It's weird to see iPhone app winners when nothing has been released yet. Seems a bit premature. Meh.
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Brandon Martinez said 10:50AM on 6-12-2008
Yeah, is that really fair to do? Does this include developers that weren't granted a certificate to be in the developer program? I know I wasn't invited to submit :(
robogobo said 10:45AM on 6-12-2008
Seriously. Links. We're supposed to be lazy, not you guys.
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Brandon Martinez said 10:48AM on 6-12-2008
Agreed
Rainer said 11:02AM on 6-12-2008
Double agreed.
James Petersen said 11:44AM on 6-12-2008
Yeah, what he said
Quix said 10:49AM on 6-12-2008
Go ScreenFlow go!
Time to bury that neglected, dusty dinosaur from Ambrosia, Snapz Pro.
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Doug Adams said 10:58AM on 6-12-2008
BTW: AOL Radio just became useable with Safari on the Mac, along with getting all of CBS Radio's feeds.
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jason mark said 11:00AM on 6-12-2008
Here are links to them for anyone who wants them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Design_Awards#2008_Winners
PS: thanks TUAW for all your great work, but maybe have a workshop on links. It feels like the links I want are never there (like this) and links that I CERTAINLY don't want (like a random link to "developers" in TUAW) abound. Look at Slashdot for a great example of well-thought-out links.
I know having confusing links drives up your ad count, but long term when you sacrifice usability and customer satisfaction for a few impressions you'll loose out.
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robogobo said 11:04AM on 6-12-2008
nice. I always forget about Wikipedia.
Cameron said 11:13AM on 6-12-2008
As someone who submitted to this, I can say that you could submit without having your application key. You didn't really miss much though, as they didn't even bother to send an email acknowledging that they received our entry, it was just ftp it to the location they asked for and then it was like it never happened, reminds me a bit of waiting for our application key. If you look close they really only appear to have considered major developers and not the small developers at all.
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LuminousNerd said 11:28AM on 6-12-2008
Command and Conquer? Fucking Command and Conquer? Seriously, who the fuck picks these? I want to know! What kind of fucking moron would give Command and Conquer for Mac an award? Didn't they play it? Didn't they realize what a piece of shit port it is, and that is is a COMPLETE FUCKING INSULT to the Mac platform? Don't they know that it is spitting in the face of Apple and all of its customers?
Someone better fucking get fired over this bullshit.
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Quix said 11:39AM on 6-12-2008
"Profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully."
LuminousNerd said 11:41AM on 6-12-2008
It's one way to express oneself forcefully. It isn't feeble or weak.
Quix said 11:44AM on 6-12-2008
Let me rephrase my original comment:
Save the juvenile caterwauling for the LAN party or Xbox Live.
LuminousNerd said 11:46AM on 6-12-2008
Hah. Juvenile, huh? Funny, I never knew ones choice of vocabulary was directly related to their age.
And it's insulting that you'd suggest I game on an Xshit.
Rhywun said 11:54AM on 6-12-2008
I'd rather see Mac-only games in this category. I can think of several that I'd much rather play than the ones shown.
LuminousNerd said 11:57AM on 6-12-2008
I have no problem with games that are available for multiple platforms. But Command and Conquer is not. It's a cheap port that took one underpaid developer two minutes to create. It runs like molasses on even the fastest of Macs.
Brandon Martinez said 4:29PM on 6-12-2008
Honestly, I don't know if I'd call it a "cheap port". Don't get me wrong on this, I love the C & C games, but the Network support on both Mac *AND* Windows is terrible. Not only between multiple OSs, but between two Windows machines!
We tried having a LAN party with this game: I had my MacBook, and the rest had PC Laptops/Desktops. No one could connect to anyone else (I take that back, there was one time one of the PCs could connect to me).
I checked all of the possible network configs (maybe I screwed up, ya know?), then searched the web. Come to find out, the networking sucks in this game!