Published: January 6, 2010
The Second Annual Best App Ever Awards nominees have now been announced and the voting is open.
Not to be confused with our own 2009 awards, The Best App Ever Awards are sponsored by our friends at 148Apps, and is the second annual competition which recognizes the best iPhone apps and games in the iTunes App Store in 2009. The goal is to help publicize the very best apps available, not just the best-selling apps.
The nomination process lasted just under a month and saw 26,899 nominations for 3,839 different apps submitted to the site for the 56 different award categories. In addition to the public nominations, a committee of industry people (including yours truly from TouchGen) and iPhone developers were gathered to help nominate apps. Five app nominees from the public and five app nominees from the committee were combined to come up with the nominees for each category.
In addition to the individual overall application categories, the top 10 nominees overall are up for the award of Best App Ever. These nominees include 2Do from Guided Ways, Eliminate Pro from ngmoco:), Homerun Battle 3D from Com2uS Corp, Labyrinth 2 from Illusion Labs, MiniSquadron from Mr. Fung Fung, Pocket God from Bolt Creative, Flight Control and Real Racing from Firemint, Tweetie 2 from atebits, and iBlast Moki from Godzillab (which as you know is our TouchGen’s game of the year).
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2 Comments on "Best App Ever Awards"
Tim on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 3:42 am
A pretty crap list of choices for best app ever, in my opinion.
Sorry, but Flight Control and Pocket God are not even in the conversation, whereas things like NOVA, Spider, Soosiz, Jet Car Stunts, Zen Bound, Skies of Glory, NFS: Shift, etc. get nary a mention.
Nathan Mustafa, USA on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 7:25 am
Why was NOVA up for best RPG? Gangstar was as well… sigh.