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Apple Announces 2023 App Store Award Finalists

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Apple today shared its 2023 App Store award finalists, highlighting standout apps chosen by the App Store editorial team. Apple has picked almost 40 apps and games to showcase across 10 different categories.

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"We are excited about the achievements of these App Store Award finalists who are helping users around the world to explore their interests in drawing, design, video editing, education, music, time management, working out, hiking, playing games, and so much more," said Phil Schiller, Apple Fellow. "These finalists are all incredibly talented and have put enormous effort into creating these great apps and games. We are inspired by their accomplishments and look forward to announcing the winners of the App Store Awards later this month."
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Apple has selected iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps and games finalists, along with top Apple Watch apps, Apple TV apps, and Apple Arcade games.

App of the Year Finalists

Game of the Year Finalists

Cultural Impact Finalists

According to Apple, the App Store award finalists were picked for "excellence, inventiveness, and technical achievement." They have helped Apple users "flex their creativity, challenge themselves, and have fun with family and friends."

Apple will pick a winner from each category (and several from the cultural category), with the winners to be announced in a few weeks. Winners receive a physical App Store award modeled after the design of the App Store logo.

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Duolingo has my vote. I started using it to learn Japanese for fun, and I'm much further along than I ever would have gotten with Rosetta Stone.
 
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Anyone know how Copilot compares to Quicken for spending and investment tracking?
 
I think nominated Mac games are actually the only three released in 2023... sad.
 
cocky jeremy said:
Duolingo has my vote. I started using it to learn Japanese for fun, and I'm much further along than I ever would have gotten with Rosetta Stone.
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Heh, what a coincidence, I actually also used it this year to do learn the same language for fun too! xD

Unfortunately though, you should know that Duolingo isn't very good for Japanese and I found this the long way 😅
It definitely makes things fun but,
At a certain point, you start learning Kanji, and there's a lot that needs to be learned about them rather than just memorizing symbols with a certain meaning which is what Duolingo does with them, it doesn't teach important stuff like the radicals that build kanjis and phenomenons like on'yomi, kunyomi, etc... This is important stuff that you need to understand to learn Kanji, and Kanji can't be avoided with Japanese, as it's basically used everywhere

I would recommend you to check out WaniKani or also stuff that Reddit users recommend on the subreddit about learning Japanese

Good luck!!! :D
 
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Mrkevinfinnerty said:
Will sideloaded Apps be counted next year?
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reading text makes it hard for me to tell if this is sarcasm or not

liraz747 said:
Unfortunately though, you should know that Duolingo isn't very good for Japanese and I found this the long way 😅
It definitely makes things fun but,
At a certain point, you start learning Kanji, and there's a lot that needs to be learned about them rather than just memorizing symbols with a certain meaning which is what Duolingo does with them, it doesn't teach important stuff like the radicals that build kanjis and phenomenons like on'yomi, kunyomi, etc... This is important stuff that you need to understand to learn Kanji, and Kanji can't be avoided with Japanese, as it's basically used everywhere
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This is very interesting. I'm doing the Japanese course and I've had a lot of fun and it's good for some basic grammar and vocab. But you're right, they don't touch on anything like radicals or phenomenons.

I think I started Duo to help with basic structure and learning the kana, but I am tempering my expectations for more advanced topics and will likely rely on a tutor / wani kani.
 
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mashdots said:
reading text makes it hard for me to tell if this is sarcasm or not


This is very interesting. I'm doing the Japanese course and I've had a lot of fun and it's good for some basic grammar and vocab. But you're right, they don't touch on anything like radicals or phenomenons.

I think I started Duo to help with basic structure and learning the kana, but I am tempering my expectations for more advanced topics and will likely rely on a tutor / wani kani.
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I tried Duolingo too. The games were fun, but I also realised I wasn't learning the language as a whole. I want to learn much more than just kanji and vocab. I want to put it all together so I can use it. I feel like WaniKani is also very kanji and vocab focused, so you don't really branch out.

I'd say Kanshudo is worth checking out. I've been using it for a while now and I feel like it's helping me to understand Japanese better and use it more. There's so much there. There's all the basic stuff, but different types of lessons for learning, so you can branch out.
 
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