Yesterday Apple hosted a special awards cemonry in their New York office. This was not a public event and was not live streamed. The following day Apple publicly announced on their Newsroom several awards including for the first time Apple Music awards.
iPhone App of 2019
Spectre Camera by Lux Optics
An AI Powered camera app.
iPad App of 2019
Flow by Moleskine
A sketchbook drawing app.
Mac App of 2019
Affinity Publisher by Serif Labs
An Adobe InDesign competitor. (At a lot more reasonable price of £39.99 one-time fee.)
Apple TV App of 2019
The Explorers by The Explorers Network
iPhone Game of 2019
“Sky: Children of the light” by thatgamecompany
iPad Game of 2019
“Hyper Light Drifter” by Abylight S.L.
Mac Game of 2019
“GRIS” by (Devolver / Nomada studio)
Apple TV Game of 2019
“Wonder boy: The Dragons Trap” by DotEmu
Apple Arcade Game of 2019
“Sayonara Wild Hearts” by Simogo
Apple have also released on the App store, Charts for the best games of 2019 and another for the best apps. As well two new articles have been released on the store displaying the trends of games including blockbuster revivals with games like Minecraft Earth and Mario Kart Tour.
This year Apple also announced their first ever Apple music awards. Announcing Billie Eilish as the global artist of the year with Lizzo being the breakthrough artist of the year. Apple music’s song of the year was “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X. Billie Elish will be performing on a live stream at the Steve Jobs Theatre on December 4th 18:30 PST or 02:30 GMT 5th December.
I know Apple Arcade has only been around for two months so it does seem weird that they have done an award for it but Sayonara Wild Hearts 100% deserves it, even now I can’t stop playing it and now the soundtrack is available on Apple Music, I can’t stop listening to it either.
Serif Labs are another great win, I’ve read a lot of reviews about their professional apps which are slowly taking professionals away from Adobe Creative cloud because they don’t want to pay monthly for the applications. Something that may worth considering for me soon as times move.
See you next week where I have a non-Apple post planned.
Kyle Wilkinson
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