Firemint, Lima Sky, Gameprom Honored at Apple Design Awards 2010

Apple has announced the winning titles in 2010’s Apple Design Awards, a yearly competition honoring software that demonstrates “technical excellence, innovation, superior technology adoption, high performance, and outstanding design.” This year’s contest focused solely on iOS applications, and marked the debut of an iPad app category alongside traditional honorees in iPhone and Mac categories. Award winners in this year’s competition include Gameprom’s iPad pinball sim Pinball HD and Lima Sky’s accelerometer-controlled iPhone action title Doodle Jump, both of which are regularly featured among the App Store’s top-selling applications. Firemint took home two awards in this year’s contest, earning the distinction of being the first developer to create two Apple Design Award-winning apps in one year. The company received honors for its iPhone racing simulation game Real Racing and an iPad-optimized port of its multi-million selling air traffic management title Flight Control. Other award winners in the 2010 Apple Design Awards’ iPad category include Agile Partners’ music notation viewer Tab Toolkit, Vito Technology’s Star Walk: Interactive Astronomy Guide, and the newspaper reading utility Financial Times iPad Edition. The iPhone category also honored Zolmo’s cookbook app 20 Minute Meals – Jamie Oliver, Sophiestication’s Wikipedia browser Articles, and Steve Sprang’s freehand painting tool Brushes.