Tuesday, June 9th 2009 was a special day for Cultured Code. You might have already heard about it if you are following us on Twitter. During the week of June 8th, Apple held its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. This year, an unbelievably large crowd of more than 5000 developers went to the Moscone West conference center to get the latest scoop on Snow Leopard and iPhone OS 3.0, along with meeting Apple engineers and bombarding them with questions.
The evening of the second day of WWDC is traditionally reserved for celebrating the winners of the Apple Design Award (ADA). The trophy is a very elegant cube with a transparent Apple logo that lights up when you touch the cube:
Receiving an ADA is the dream of every Mac and iPhone developer. While not as glamorous as the Oscars – we are developers after all! – the significance of the ADA for the Mac community is not unlike that of an Oscar for the film industry.
Before we flew to San Francisco, we tried to convince ourselves that we had an actual chance of winning, but our hopes dwindled when we sat among thousands of other developers that Tuesday evening. With so many other contestants, receiving an ADA felt virtually impossible. But it happened! When Things was announced as a winner, we all shared a frozen moment in time – it was a dream come true.
Being awarded a prize for design excellence from a company like Apple means an awful lot to us. We are happy and proud; but most of all, it is an encouragement to continue to do the best job we possibly can.
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Things is a fantastic app, and is very deserving of its ADA.
Congratulations, guys!
Very, very well deserved. Things is a superb app, on both the Mac and the iPhone. I was very happy to see that it won an ADA, and even did a short post on it, at:
http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-news/apple-design-awards-some-familiar-and-very-deserving-names
Great going! I really enjoy Things – it improves my quality of life. Congrats on the award!
Congratulations! I love the app, use it every day and it’s an award that you certainly deserved.
Way to go!
Congratulations from a happy customer.
Although I only use a fraction of what Things is capable of I really like seeing an award like this going to a German software team.
Greetings from Nürnberg.
-Hermann-
Excellent!! Congratulations to the entire team, for the ADA and for the terrific Things applications! I never want to do without them again, keep on going!
Gratz! Now get some MobileMe sync love going. :)
It was great witnessing this together with you guys and hanging out with the team during the week of WWDC. Hope to meet you again soon.
As it is well worth repeating: Things (Cocoa and Touch) both well deserve any honour and it’s great that Things Cocoa got an ADA!
Congratulations guys! I use this app all the time. Great design and functionality. Glad you got the award!
I am so happy for you guys! What a great achievement and recognition of the best task management app for the Mac!!!
Congratulations! If I was to pick an app to win an ADA award you’d definitely get my vote! Thanks for making such awesome software.
Congratulations, «Things» deserves it – especially since «Things» is one of the ADA winners that has already been widely used and proven to be a success.
I use Things everyday on my Mac and iPhone. Things is the first computer software than handles my to-do list better than pencil and paper (thanks in part to the iPhone).
Congratulations on the award and keep up the great work!
Congratulations!
Congrats and well deserved. Keep up the good work and look forward to what your team has in store for the future.
I’m not surprised. You’ve done a superb job. Keep up the good work!
Congrats! You guys really ‘get it.’ I love Things for my iPhone and Mac.
Keep up the great work.
Congrats! Great app worthy of the award. Keep up the good work and look forward to what’s in store for the future.
Congratulations! You’ve really really deserved this Avard :)
Whenever somebody asks me, what’s your favorite App on the iPhone … there’s no doubt … it’s Things!
Nice one… though I must say it wasn’t a surprise… nice job
Congrats guys! Things is such a well designed app that I bought it even though it hasn’t got on of the most critical capabilities I need: WebDAV syncing or, at least, MobileMe syncing! Please take a look at this issue fast!
Congrats guys. I’d be lost without Things. Thanks again.
Congrats!
Things keeps me from going insane in the membrane. You guys totally rock. Totally.
I’m not surprised, frankly, because I haven’t seen anything on the Mac even approaching Things’s attention to detail and function.
Keep up the great work.
This brings me many joyment!
Wow! Totally deserved. Things has changed my life for the better. That’s not an overstatement. Thanks so much, keep up the good work!
“Bravo” from a proud french user =)
Keep on rollin’
Congratulation!
This result is for your great job! Thanks for the nice app, Things.
Keep up the great work!
Great job Team and Congratulations! I use Things everyday and have it on my laptop and iTouch.
Keep up the great work!
Hardly deserved, in my opinion.
You are too busy to fix the problems in Things, too busy to post the road map promised a month ago, but you have enough time to remove links to your forums full of angry customers and write self-congratulatory posts.
I hate to rain on your parade. I really do. I know how hard it is to make good products.
But this is shameful behavior.
Please do as you promised to your paying customers. Enough is enough with the bugs, missing features, and horrific customer support.
(And don’t forget OmniFocus won last year, and they are a year ahead now. Get to work boys.)
Congratulations! Well done job! Been hooked on Things from the very beginnings. Keep up the nice work!
I bought Things a a week ago after a 10 day trial on my Mac. My life has become super organised thanks to this great App. It seems like I made the right choice :)
Congratulations on the award.
Glückwunsch!
You really deserve your price, each new version of Things is better than previous in every little detail. Hope this price will help you to sell more apps and make your company growth and create more apps ;)
Great achievement, guys. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Congratulations, the hard work is really paying off for you guys!
Congratulations. And to echo the other comments, thanks for helping improve my day-to-day routine!