Apple Design Awards 2010 Winners Announced

Apple has announced the winners of this year’s Apple Design Awards (ADA), which unlike the past years are restricted to the iOS platform. We’ve talked about this before.

The Apple Design Awards “recognize applications that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption, and quality.” They represent the best that you can have on iPhone, iPads and iPods.

Even though the website hasn’t been updated yet, we’ve followed the event and you can check out the winners after the break. Congratulations to all the winners!

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Apple Now Allowing Limited Analytics Data Collection

Remember D8, when Jobs said they were pissed at Flurry for abusing Apple’s developer agreement with their ad analytics? It’s Day 2 of WWDC, and Apple seems to have loosened up a bit. MediaMemo via MacRumors posts:

“If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads – though you will need to get their permission to do so.”

MacRumors clarifies, however, that there is one interesting catch.

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The iPhone 4 Patents: Gyroscope and Videoconferencing

The new iPhone really is the most advanced phone in the world. And when you own the single most important piece of smartphone technology, you better patent its technologies pronto. Today, we go hands on with some of Apple’s newest iPhone related patents pertaining to the gyroscope and video calling.

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The iPad Arcade Cabinet

Gamer Hideyoshi Moriya managed to build a custom arcade cabinet for the iPad out of some cardboard, using an Arduino board to connect with joystick and buttons. It’s an amateur project, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this end up in some online store in the future.

Check out the demo video after the break. [via TUAW]

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