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Apple ranks third in BusinessWeek customer service survey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2010)

Apple has nailed down the number three spot on BusinessWeek's fourth annual customer service awards, falling in right behind LL Bean and insurance company USAA, and way above companies like Amazon and Dell. The awards were based on survey results from a few different places, and Apple scored an A+ ...

Steve Jobs featured in Icons art exhibit, wins award at MWC

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2010)

His Steveness was honored twice recently. First, he showed up in a piece of art featured in a New York exhibit. "Icons" is a set of portraits that shows off Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and of course our own iCEO. The art itself isn't ...

Adweek Media's Campaign of the Decade: Apple's Get a Mac ads

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2009)

As Apple fans, we've loved Apple's "Get a Mac" ad campaign. With Justin Long as the cool, laid-back Mac and John Hodgman starring as the stodgy, uptight PC, the ads have managed to make us laugh since they first appeared in 2006. The campaign has spawned the "I'm a PC" response ads from Microsoft, ...

J.D. Power smartphone study ranks iPhone #1 in customer satisfaction

by Steven Sande (Oct 9th, 2009)

I don't know about you, but when I hear the name "J.D. Power and Associates," I think of customer satisfaction for automobile manufacturers. The company also does customer satisfaction surveys in a number of other industries, and yesterday they released the 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone ...

Apple Design Award winners announced

by Michael Rose (Jun 10th, 2009)

It's a point of pride for the developers and a highlight of WWDC week -- tonight, courtesy of Jim Dalrymple at The Loop, we congratulate the winners of the Apple Design Awards for 2009. The list includes several TUAW favorites (Things, BoinxTV, Tweetie, Billings and MLB.com) along with some ...

Apple Store window displays receive awards

by Dave Caolo (May 12th, 2009)

When I was a young lad in Scranton, Pa, pierogi in one pocket and anthracite coal in the other, my mother and I would wait for the Colts bus in front of the Globe Department Store. Now, before you assume that this post will be nothing more than endless, irrelevant Andy Rooney-style sentimentality ...

iPhone is dominating independent gaming

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2009)

Our friends at Joystiq make a very insightful and very telling discovery: the iPhone more or less owns the finalist list for the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile category. 11 of the 14 contestants aren't on the Nintendo DS or PSP -- they're built and played on the iPhone and the iPod touch. ...

2008 Best iPhone App Ever winners announced

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2009)

The voting only went underway a while ago, but they've just announced the winners for the 2008 Best App Ever awards, celebrating (according to 148apps.com and the people they got to nominate and vote in their contest) the best iPhone apps of last year. As I said for the voting, you can probably take ...

2008 Best App Ever awards voting is underway

by Mike Schramm (Jan 2nd, 2009)

The nominations are out and voting has begun for the "Best App Ever" awards for 2008, recognizing the best iPhone and iPod touch apps of the year. Nominations have already happened -- the public submitted almost 18,000 nominations, and a panel of developers and experts was assembled to finalize the ...

Apple posts ADA winners page, screenshots of iPhone apps

by Cory Bohon (Jun 13th, 2008)

Today, Apple posted a page showing off the 2008 Apple Design Award winners. Most notably, they show off the iPhone software winners. So if you want to get a "sneak peek" at what some of the software will look like when it is released, head on over to the ADA page. Enigmo, MIM, Twitterrific, AOL ...

Apple Design Awards 2008

by Cory Bohon (Jun 12th, 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: ...

Apple wins two D&AD 'Black Pencil' awards

by Robert Palmer (May 16th, 2008)

As reported elsewhere, Apple today won two Black Pencil awards from D&AD, a British organization (or "organisation," I suppose) that promotes the very best of design around the world. This year, the iPhone and aluminum iMac both took home the top award. The iPod touch received second prize (a ...

iPhone wins awards, will win a lot more before 2008

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2007)

We're getting closer and closer to the end of the year, and that means it's almost time for everyone to announce their "best tech product of the year" awards. Gadget website T3 has gotten an early start, and not surprisingly, Apple walked all over everyone else, with the iPhone grabbing tons of ...

Macworld Editors' and Readers' Choice awards voting begins

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2007)

Macworld has announced that they're looking for nominations and votes for their fourth annual Reader's Choice awards-- they're asking interested parties to drop a note over on this forum thread in the categories of Apple Product of the Year, Third Party Hardware and Software of the Year, and Mac Gem ...

Apple Design Awards 2007

by Dan Lurie (Jun 13th, 2007)

Apple has announced the winners of the 2007 Apple Design Awards, and as always, the winners are a selection of the very best of OS X applications. While a good deal of the winning developers tonight received their second or even third award, it's nice to see a bunch of smaller and lesser known first ...