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Apple Design Award Winners Announced

Posted by pudge on from the next-year-Dashboard-widgets-will-take-most-of-these-awards dept.

Glen Low writes "Apple has just posted the list of Apple Design Award winners for 2004. Big Bang Chess walked away with two awards: Best Product and Best Technology Adoption, and my very own Graphviz port was runner-up in Best New Product and won the Best Open Source Product. And yes, the GUI is all BSD-licensed Cocoa goodness."

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  1. Re:best "inspiration" by MinutiaeMan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Oh god, not this again...
    1. Widgets were not invented for Konfabulator.
    2. Widgets as a layer of the desktop was not invented for Konfabulator.
    3. Widgets as an Exposé layer was only implemented in Konfabulator last Friday, pointing to parallel development rather than a ripoff.
    All this hubbub about Apple supposedly ripping off of Konfabulator is bullshit. Konfabulator doesn't have a monopoly on the idea, and from what I've heard from the developers themselves, Dashboard is going to be at least partially different from Konfabulator. Not to mention that the idea of little programs called "Widgets" have been around for years.

    But if the Konfabulator developers would rather moan and whine instead of develop a better product, then that's fine by me. I know better.
  2. Re:best "inspiration" by MinutiaeMan · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If that was supposed to be a joke, then it was in poor taste. I'm sick of seeing Apple getting blamed for just doing their job -- developing better software.

    Your post was basically propagating the popular myth that's floating around from paranoid and indignant developers about a product that hasn't even been released yet.