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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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Mark

The fact that Guitar Hero 3 won for best leopard game just goes to show you the sad state of Mac gaming.
I had a brand new iMac (basically the only computer the game actually ran on) and the game was unplayable on anything but the lowest res with the crowd OFF and even then it wasn't registering notes well.
Also, the first version of it wouldn't exit properly, it had a memory leak when it quit that forced you to reboot, and when it quit the windowserver would interact at glacial speeds.
Guitar Hero 3 may not have taken a single developer 2 minutes, but I'm fairly certain that the developers in question had never seen a Mac before.

June 12 2008 at 11:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Frederico

I don't get it. I got to the AOL link and get a regular Safari page. I try to play music, and I get 'You need the latest Flash Player..."

WTF is the "Award Winning" iPhone Player???

June 12 2008 at 11:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fritz Laurel

What did the Associated Press win for?! Can't be their website -- it looks like dirt on my iPhone...

June 12 2008 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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J. Calhoun

The AP demoed a native iPhone application earlier this week at WWDC. The app allows a user to read and report news stories, view AP video and images, and find local stories based on GPS location. It'll be a free download when the App Store launches.

The WWDC Keynote video has all the details, starting around the 33 minute mark.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc08/

June 14 2008 at 1:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
alansky

Profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully." --Quix

Don't be a pussy! Everybody, including your grandmother, hears the word "fuck" a thousand times a day. But when someone who is upset about something dares to utter "profanity," we (as a society) shoot them down. This is hypocracy to the ultra. If someone's mad, he's mad. If you don't like the way he expresses himself, why should he care?

June 12 2008 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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cmuska902

Apple people. We're here to talk apple.

June 12 2008 at 3:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LuminousNerd.com

:)

June 12 2008 at 4:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LuminousNerd.com

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.

June 12 2008 at 11:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Cameron

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.

June 12 2008 at 11:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doug Adams

BTW: AOL Radio just became useable with Safari on the Mac, along with getting all of CBS Radio's feeds.

June 12 2008 at 10:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jason mark

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.

June 12 2008 at 10:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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robogobo

nice. I always forget about Wikipedia.

June 12 2008 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Silver

Go ScreenFlow go!

Time to bury that neglected, dusty dinosaur from Ambrosia, Snapz Pro.

June 12 2008 at 10:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robogobo

Seriously. Links. We're supposed to be lazy, not you guys.

June 12 2008 at 10:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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