Apple's Best of the App Store in 2016:' Prisma' and 'Clash Royale' Win Top Honors

[rudychidiac]

Life is strange deserves the best mac game of the year
Kinda disappointed with the other picks

 

[the8thark]

It's almost the end of the year, and many will go on Christmas holidays. Either their app is ready by now, or there's always next year. I don't see how this comes as a surprise.

Them not caring never comes as a surprise. It's also not hard to do the awards in early January so all of the calendar year is included.

 

[Speedy Dingo]

Apps for Apple TV and Apple Watch get awards. But nothing for the Mac.

It's all falling into place for Tim Cook you see - the Mac lineup will get the axe soon enough, so they won't mention Mac App or Mac Game of the Year in the awards... 😛

 

[thespacekid]

Hopefully the Twitter AppleTV app is better than the iPhone app. All I need is to keep having to click things to make adds go away.

 

[jimbobb24]

this totally cracked me up. Who the hell uses twitter on ATV?! And if that's the top app this does not speak well for ATV as an app platform.

Exactly. And does Apple really want to excourage that direction for the AppleTV.

I would just happy if the slide show feature worked

 

[barthrh]

this totally cracked me up. Who the hell uses twitter on ATV?! And if that's the top app this does not speak well for ATV as an app platform.

You need to see what Twitter is doing. I believe they have finally found their revenue model and killer app feature that can drive them to profitability. They are starting to deliver live video content and then mesh it with tweets, making the watching of events more social. They did this during the presidential debates and are now doing it for NFL. I absolutely see this becoming a big thing for them that will drive lots of revenue.

Completely fair to call it best of the year because it's a compelling blend of social and TV.

 

[drmacnut]

Really, Bear is this year's top Mac app? It hasn't even been two months since it debuted.

Not only that, it has pretty much equal 50% 5-star and 1-star reviews and is nothing special at all when compared to the zillion other writing and note-taking and to-do apps out there. Ulysses seems like a much better choice in a way. I have nothing against Shiny Frog, but ... why ... just why?

I mean, like Jessica (above), I am flummoxed as to why Apple App Store editors would choose Bear as their app of the year. And I cannot find an official explanation anywhere as to why they selected it. What makes it so special?

Disclaimer: I don't write apps, I don't use Bear, and I don't work for Bear or any of its competition.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Not only that, it has pretty much equal 50% 5-star and 1-star reviews and is nothing special at all when compared to the zillion other writing and note-taking and to-do apps out there. Ulysses seems like a much better choice in a way. I have nothing against Shiny Frog, but ... why ... just why?

I mean, like Jessica (above), I am flummoxed as to why Apple App Store editors would choose Bear as their app of the year. And I cannot find an official explanation anywhere as to why they selected it. What makes it so special?

Disclaimer: I don't write apps, I don't use Bear, and I don't work for Bear or any of its competition.

Ulysses 2.0 came out last year so they couldn't have included them. 🙁 But then they won the Apple Design Award earlier this year and that's a way bigger deal. Day One won it in 2012.

I don't have anything against Bear either. They are lucky that they are a part of the beginning push for subscription apps and that Apple are backing them. But that might be just why they are App of the Year. The search triggers and ability to link notes together is interesting, but the 1-star reviews otherwise say that people really don't get why we use Markdown to begin with.