14 DAY TRIAL // Developers looking forward to have their apps featured at Apple’s 2011 Design Awards might want to look over their code and consider submitting it to the Mac App Store by May 28, if they haven’t done so already.
Each year, the Apple Design Awards showcase the best in application design and development. The awards are part of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
According to the web page set up for Apple Design Awards 2011, “This year’s Apple Design Awards will be awarded to developers whose iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are currently on the App Store and demonstrate excellence in the following areas:
Design
Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable.
Innovation
Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting ways.
Technical excellence
Technically advanced apps have excellent performance and make extensive use of the latest Apple technologies to deliver innovative, platform differentiating, and advanced features.”
While all this undoubtedly ensures a high degree of quality and security concerning third-party Mac software, Apple is basically saying that if you’re not on the Mac App Store, as a developer, you don’t exist (at least for them).
Many have speculated that the Mac maker’s practices of raising walls around its business are not in the best interest for end users.
Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place June 6 through June 10 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Tickets to the event have already sold out.
For this year’s five-day conference, Apple has confirmed plans to unveil “the future of iOS and Mac OS,” demonstrations of “new kinds of apps” built with advanced frameworks, and a slew of technical sessions presented by Apple engineers.
The WWDC website includes information on sessions, labs, special events, and logistical information as it becomes available.