Apple last night held its annual Apple Design Awards ceremony at WWDC, recognizing twelve applications for excellence in design and innovation across four categories: Student, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. All eligible applications were required to be available via either the iOS or Mac App Store.
This year's winners come from a range of genres, from games to news to books to music and beyond. In terms of price, the winners range from the free Pulse News Reader for iOS to the $49.99 Capo for OS X.
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Student
- Grades 2
- Pennant
- Pulse News Reader
iPhone
- Cut the Rope
- Golfscape GPS Rangefinder
- Infinity Blade
iPad
- Osmos for iPad
- Our Choice
- djay
Mac
- Capo
- Pixelmator
- Anomaly Warzone Earth
As part of a focus on iOS at last year's conference, Apple did not include Mac applications in the Apple Design Awards competition. But with OS X Lion playing a prominent role in this year's event and the Mac App Store gaining momentum, Mac applications returned to the ballot this year.
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(View all)Pretty soon it will be impossible to load software onto your Mac that doesn't arrive via the App Store. Steve's dreams of making the Mac a closed ecosystem are almost complete. Nothing that isn't controlled by Apple will be allowed to exist on your Mac. In order to maintain control of your Mac you will need to jailbreak it, like an iPhone.
IMO, this is a good thing. :D
100% of Al Gore's earnings from "Our Choice" go to charity...
That makes me fell better. I will say the App is awesome, very interactive, and well put together.
Hmm I see Al Gores position (had or have) has benefits. my hand it off to Al Gore, he surely knows how to milk this world in danger for $$$$.
Though the App does is very good, very interactive and some what intriguing.
100% of Al Gore's earnings from "Our Choice" go to charity...
Highly recommend it.
I'm glad to see the Mac Apps are back. Probably because of the Mac App Store. Are all of these apps available on the store only?