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List of Nominees (Spoilers Below)

Best Overall iOS App

• Final Cut Camera
  
• Mango Baby
  
• Carrot Weather
  
• Ivory
  
• Callsheet
  

Best Newcomer iOS App

• Tapestry
  
• Focus Friend
  
• Athlytic
  
• Cassette
  

Best Overall Mac App

• Numbers
• Mimestream
  
• ChatGPT
  
• Claude
  
• Ice
  
• ChatGPT
  
• Mimestream
  
• Obsidian
  
• Things
  

Best Newcomer Mac App

• Longplay
• Superwhisper
  
• Claude
  
• Ice
  
• ChatGPT
  
• Festivitas
  
• Affinity
  
• Hyperspace
  
• ChatGPT
  
• Ghostty
  
• Tapestry
  

Best Feature: Best Implementation of a ’26 OS Feature**

• iPad Multitasking
  
• Clipboard History for Mac
  
• Private Cloud Compute in Shortcuts
• Athlytic
  
• Liquid Glass
  
• iPad Multitasking
  
• Call Screening
  

Game of the Year

• Herdling
  
• Donkey Kong Bananza
  
• Balatro
  
• Clair Obscure Expedition 33
  

Favourite Movie

• Thunderbolts*
  
• Superman
  
• Flow
  
• My Old Ass
  
• Sinners
  
• F1
  
• One Battle After Another
  

Favourite TV Show

• The Pitt
  
• Ludwig
  
• Murderbot
  
• Pluribus
  
• Severance
  
• The Studio
  

Favourite Book

• Moonbound by Robin Sloan
  
• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
  
• Apple in China, by Patrick McGee
  
• Ensh*ttification, by Cory Doctorow
  
• Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green
  

Favourite Podcast

• Connected
  
• Crash Course Pods: The Universe
  
• Wavefrm
  
• The Town
  
• Kinda Funny Gamescast
  
• The Rest is History
  
• Connected
  
• Upgrade
  

Favourite Apple Product

• iPhone 17 Pro
  
• AirPods Pro 3 
  
• iPhone Air
  
• iPad Pro M5
  
• MacBook Air M4
  

Favourite Non-Apple Product

• RoboRock vacuum
  
• Combustion thermal probe
  
• Traeger pellet grill
  
• Nintendo Switch 2
  
• Bambu Labs P2S 3D Printer
  
• Trmnl E-Ink Display
  

Worst Gadget / Most Disappointing Tech

• “Sky Blue” MacBook Air
  
• XTEINK X4
  
• Cord Cutting Drama
  
• AI
  
• Liquid Glass
  
• Apple Intelligence
  

Most Life-Changing Hardware

• RoboRock vacuum
  
• Combustion thermal probe
  
• M4 MacBook Pro and Second Desk
• Lutron Shades
• Vtech RM7767HD
  
• iPad mini in the Nursery
  
• AirPods Pro 3
  
• Apple Watch
  
• Nintendo Switch 2
  

Favourite Tech Story

• “Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son” - Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge
• “Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed” Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge
• Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
• Apple Succession
• Alan Dye Leaves Apple
  
• AI Arms Race
  
• Announcement of the Steam Machine
  

Favourite Tech Screw Up

• Apple gives up on personalized Siri until “the coming year”
  
• Jony Ive and Sam Altman share a coffee in SF
  
• Apple, Epic, Judge Gonzalez Rogers — Apple losing ability to charge 30%, being held in contempt, etc
  
• Apple Intelligence
  
• AWS / Cloudflare Outages
  
• Liquid Glass
  

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