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As is customary for this time of year, Apple has just released its “Best of 2012″ list for the App Store. And the winner of the coveted Editor’s Choice award goes to…Action Movie FX.
Let that sink in for a few seconds.
Instead of picking a potentially disruptive app or an actually good one, the crack team at Apple decided to opt for a special effects app. Surely there must have been other more noteworthy apps that launched this year to choose from, no? I don’t understand how this is one of the “year’s best releases.”
What about Sparrow, Brewster, Square Wallet, Clear, Dark Sky, or even Letterpress? iPhoto is one hell of an app too. And yet Action Movie FX somehow ended up as the best app of the year. It’s not even innovative or disruptive in any way. It makes very little use of the iPhone’s hardware. I am disappoint.
What would you have picked as your favourite new iPhone app of 2012?
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Does it really matter what Apple think is the best application? It’s like people kicking up fuss over the oscars.
They have the GOTY bang on at least, Rayman Jungle Run is a blast.
What a boring lazy article.
I agree, I dont even think the writer has used Action FX
It may not have been available in the app store, but I think that Apple Maps deserves the title of “app of the year”. After all, how can an app so well loved by so many people for its accuracy and other revolutionary features not win such a prestigious title?
I was going to say Google Maps, but yes, Apple naming Apple Maps the best of the year would also be entertaining
I guess each app store is different because in the UK app store that isn’t app of the year.. .
Just looked on my iPhone and I have:
App of the year – Airbnb
Game of the year – Rayman jungle run
So as well as being a pretty boring article, its also wrong.
Well hi there disappoint. I’m Kris.
Out of the apps you mention,Action FX is the only one I have head of !
and FYI, its the one app I most pull out to amaze & impress people and get a few seconds of laughter out of them.
do your research
App of the year should be Google Maps for iOS.
and your apps of the year are a email client, address book, and a to-do list.
yaaawwwwnnnn duuudddeeeee.