My Dream App For the Mac

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @04:39AM from the with-celebrity-judges-but-no-simon-cowell dept.

Steve Streza writes "My Dream App, a Mac contest in search of the next killer app, features Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Xbox and zune creator J. Allard as guest judges for its final round. Visitors can vote for their 3 favorite app ideas, and receive free licenses to both Overflow 2 and the Apple Design Award winning PhotoPresenter. Voting is open until Tuesday at 8:00 PM EDT, at which point the three winners will be announced. The winners, who will have emerged from an initial pool of more than 2,700 entrants, will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales. "

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2 Percent Marketshare Leads To App Begging by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-23 04:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Welcome to the life of people who own computers with just 2 percent marketshare - you have to beg or bribe people to support your platform.

Healthy platforms don't need these stunts. At least Apple has the iPod stuff still. For now.
1. Re:2 Percent Marketshare Leads To App Begging by Overly+Critical+Guy · 2006-10-23 07:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  I'd say its healthier than the Windows world, which has nothing like the really cool apps we get like Delicious Library, the Omni apps, etc. Such cutting-edge apps were the inspiration for this contest.
  
  But hey, enjoy Win32 and the registry for another half-decade.
  
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  "Sufferin' succotash."