"Apple announces its App Store Awards each year during the final weeks of the year. Ostensibly, these reward developers for building apps and games that push creative boundaries on Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, TV, and Vision Pro. Selected by the App Store editors, the prize-winning apps should be seen as cutting-edge products that shine light on the emerging future of app design on Apple's platforms. To reflect this, Apple introduced a new 'Cultural Impact' category this year."
"It was humans, specifically human curation. You see, Apple has understood for years that people want human guides, rather than guidance from intelligence machines/bots. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its Apple Music service, which has human curators to help guide your music discovery on the service. (Having human guidance matters a lot when you have half the smartphone population of some countries using the service.)"
"It's the same at the App Store, where humans manage the process and the store itself. Those humans are allegedly the same ones who submit the suggested winners for the App Store Awards, which are selected by those editors. The principle should be that the editors pick the apps that most deserve praise for pushing app design boundaries."
Apple announces App Store Awards annually during the final weeks of the year. The awards reward developers for building apps and games that push creative boundaries on Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, TV, and Vision Pro. App Store editors select winners intended to represent cutting-edge products that illuminate the emerging future of app design. A new 'Cultural Impact' category was introduced to reflect broader influence. Apple relies on human curation across services such as Apple Music and the App Store. Some analysts have grown less impressed by the selections and suggest the awards need innovation. The iPhone winner Tiimo aims to serve neurodivergent users.
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