
Fame, fortune, and supersweet prize packages given to developers of the best OS X and iPhone apps.
The 2008 Apple Design Awards ceremony was yesterday, always an exciting part of WWDC. Awards were given to OS X apps as well as native iPhone apps that won't be available to schlubs like you and me until the App Store goes live in July.
Besides the prestige and in-your-facery of such a major award, the prize packages are pretty great too -- we're totally jealous. The OS X and iPhone winners get two 15-inch MacBook Pros, two 30-inch Cinema Displays, a 16GB iPod touch, an 8GB iPhone, a Premier Membership in the Apple Developer Connection, plus reimbursement for one person's WWDC expenses, including conference ticket, airfar, and hotel. Oh yeah, and one 2009 Apple Developer Connection Macworld Expo Exclusive Marketing Package, which we believe is a long way of saying they'll get to show off their winning app on the show floor at next January's Macworld.
The Best OS X Student Project winner, Axel Peju for his financial management app Squirrel, wins one 15-inch MBP, one 30-inch Cinema Display, a 16GB iPod touch, one ADC 2008 Student Membership, reimbursement for his WWDC expenses, and the same 2009 ADC ME EMP already fully typed out above. (Heh.)
And here are the winners, which all get our hearty congratulations.
Best OS X Student Project
Squirrel (finance management)
By: Axel Peju
Price: 6.99 Euros
Best OS X Graphics and Media Application and Best OS X Application
ScreenFlow (screencasting)
By: Vara Software Limited
Price: $99.99
Best OS X User Experience
Macnification (organizer for microscopic images)
By: Orbicule
Price: 249 Euros
Best OS X Game
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
By: Aspyr
Price: $59.99
Read the Mac|Life review
Best iPhone Web App
Remember the Milk (task manager)
By: Remember the Milk
Price: Free
Best iPhone Game
Enigmo
By: Pangea
Price: $9.99
Best iPhone Entertainment App
AOL Radio
By: AOL LLC
Price: Free
Best iPhone Social Networking App
Twitterific (Twitter client)
By: The Icon Factory
Price: TBA
Best iPhone Productivity App
OmniFocus (task manager)
By: The Omni Group
Price: TBA
Best iPhone Heathcare and Fitness App
MIM (medical imaging)
By: MIMVista Corp.
Price: TBA
Congrats!
Submitted by Chris Thomson (not verified) on Thu, 2008-06-12 12:55
Congrats to all the winners... they all deserve it!
PS, it's "finance" for the Student winner's app, not "fiance management". Haha. :)
LOL
Submitted by Susie Ochs on Thu, 2008-06-12 14:32
Thanks Chris (and others) for noticing. I knew something looked off about that sentence... Ha!
I managed my fiance by making him my husband. It works!
squirrel
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-06-12 12:56
Best OS X Student Project
Squirrel (fiance management)
By: Axel Peju
Price: 6.99 EurosVersion 2.0 will be: Bride management
and then ...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-06-12 14:14
And version 3.0:
Divorce management!
...
Submitted by Juan Carlos (not verified) on Thu, 2008-06-12 14:58
Seems to be readers enjoy mistakes very much. You should do that more often.