Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Apple Design Awards

The Apple Design Awards is a special event hosted by Apple Inc. at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The Workgroup Servers are not to be confused with the Apple Network Servers, which were specially designed servers that exclusively ran on AIX and thus do not qualify as Macintoshes.

The event is meant to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh software and hardware produced by independent developers, as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple's products. The ADAs, as they are commonly known, are awarded in a variety of categories which vary from year to year. 

The Apple Design Awards have been presented each year, though for the first two years of their existence they were known as the Human Interface Design Excellence, or HIDE, awards. Since the physical awards were designed with an Apple logo that glows when touched. 

These new awards were engineered and built by Spark factor Design. The early awards were dubbed the Heidi’s, but this name was dropped in favor of the simpler Apple Design Awards. Apart from that, they were mostly identical to computers out of Apple's workstation range.

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