Apple is keen to big up the emerging iPhone application market, in advance of its launch of the iPhone App Store next month. So this week, at its WWDC show (tsk, it didn’t end with the keynote on Monday), it held its Apple Design Awards, which included several categories for iPhone applications.
Best iPhone Game was Enigmo 1.0 from Pangea Software (read all about that on Pocket Gamer). Meanwhile, Best Social Networking App went to Twiterrific 1.0 from The Iconfactory, and Best Entertainment App went to AOL Radio 1.0, which is made by AOL. The former offers location-based social networking, while the latter lets you stream 350 radio channels to your iPhone.
Best Healthcare & Fitness App went to something called MIMVista, which lets doctors look at doctory stuff on their iPhones, while Best Productivity App went to OmniFocus, a task management application with location features. Finally, Best Web App went to Remember The Milk 1.0, another task manager. And there’s plenty more innovative ideas where all those came from…
The jury’s out on just how Apple plans to control the flow of iPhone applications, once its App Store launches in June. Will it give accredited developers free rein to release as many apps as they like, or will it restrict the number so as not to overwhelm iPhone users? It could go either way.
Having stuffed yourself silly on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, what better way to pass the time until drinking yourself silly on New Year’s Eve than downloading a new application for your mobile phone? Answers on a postcard please, but in the meantime, check out our pick of five top Java apps…
