Palm Gear Consumer Choice Awards

[Griff]

The following article was posted on CliéSource yesterday to enable visitors to CliéSource the ability to vote in the PalmGear Consumer Choice Awards. I understand that many members of CliéSource have objected to how the polls were posted and as a result have donated space on my personal website for the polls. The individual topics here have been removed at my request by Reggie and replaced with this single topic.

The polls may be found in a forum (http://thegriff.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=31) at my site. All visitors are welcome to vote, however you must register to comment. Please note that due to the move, the polls will start fresh and be open until September 21st, not the 19th as posted in the article.

Thanks,
Griff

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09/16/2003

In order to further promote the importance of the Palm OS platform
and user forums such as ClieSource.com, PalmInfoCenter.com and
others, PalmGear is posting

a poll so that you can cast your vote for the 2003 PalmGear Consumer
Choice Awards.

The PalmGear Consumer Choice Awards take PalmGear's top developers
and best applications and puts them to the test by those who know
them best - their customers!

PalmGear has teamed up with our PUG (Palm User Group) partners to
choose some of the best applications and developers for the PalmGear
Consumer Choice Awards nominees. The Consumer Choice Awards nominee applications are from
PalmGear Premier Partners, PalmGear's leading application developers,
which have been chosen by the PalmGear and the PUG community as the best in the
market for Palm Powered device users.

Cast your vote today! The poll will end on 9/19/03 at which time all
votes will be tallied. Winners will be presented their awards the
week of October the 12th on PalmGear's Developer getaway cruise, PalmGear Decaffeinated,
which will be attended by the top Palm OS developers in the world as
well as many Palm industry leaders.

Thank you for your participation and your continued support of the
Palm OS platform.

Developer of the Year:
The developer of the year award is presented to the developer who has
shown the greatest understanding of the Palm user market through
product development, product updates and customer relations.

SnapperFish
Cutting Edge Software, Inc.
Handmark
Astraware
Communication Intelligence Corporation

Best New Developer:
The best new developer award is presented to the developer who has
been a PalmGear developer for less than two years and is in
recognition of quality of application development, product marketing and business development.

Snapperfish
NormSoft
NoviiMedia
PDA Performance
Aerodrome

Best New Concept:
The best new concept award is presented to the developer who has
introduced the best new application concept within the last year and
is in recognition of insight into emerging application markets and customer needs.

Aeroplayer - Aerodrome
Card Export -Softick
KeySuite - Chapura
NoviiRemote - NoviiMedia
SlideFree - Pocket Science

Best Overall Application:
The best overall application award is presented to the developer or
development team who has developed the best application overall and
is in recognition of broad customer appeal, innovative development and product quality.

Ultrasoft Money - Ultrasoft
Bonsai Outliner - Natara
Quick Office Premiere
JFile - Land-J Technologies
Pocket-Tunes - by Normsoft

Best Use of Technology:
The best use of technology award is presented to the developer or
development team who has shown the best use of emerging technologies
within their application development.

AcidImage, by Red Mercury, LLC
Communication Intelligence Corp – CIC Jot Bundle
PDAapps - VeriChat
Card Export - by Softick
funSMS - English, by Fun Communications

Best Use of Graphics:
The best use of graphics award is presented to the developer or
development team who have produced the best looking application using
the full graphics capabilities of the latest Palm OS devices.

Natara
Astraware
Handmark
Kickoo
Tapperware

Legend Award:
The legend award is presented to the developer or development team
who has made significant contributions through technology and product
development to the field of Palm Powered application development.

Handmark
Ultrasoft
Natara
Beiks
Cutting Edge Software, Inc.

[volcanopele]

grr...now all my nice comments on why voted for which choice are gone...grrr...

But I will vote again.

[Joel]

Thanks Griff.

[volcanopele]

got an error after clicking on submit in your register page. Tried to register again, but it said my user name, and my email have already been used. hopefully I will get registration confirmation email so I can vote.

[Griff]

I manually activated your account for you.

If you can remember the error your received, please send it to me in a PM. The forum has actually been up for a year with no troubles, but of course Murphy's Law states that as soon as you open it to the public, something must go wrong.

Likewise, if anyone else has problems, please send me a PM here and if possible the error and I'll get you fixed up.

[volcanopele]

Don't quite remember the entire error message, but it in part said that it could not save my personal information.

[*YellowRose*]

Griff, I just got back on since last night, and don't know if you answered my question, posted in the deleted threads. How are these apps/developers chosen, exactly? I can't believe DateBk5 is not on best apps. I'm disappointed about that . . . I don't use ANY of these apps except Acid Image . . . :(

[Griff]

First off, let me make it clear I have nothing to do with the selection process. Kenny had explained in one of the deleted threads that the nominees were selected by various Palm User Groups. You may wish to send him a PM to see if he'd be willing to hop back on and repost his explanation.

[Griff]

Just a reminder that today is the last day to vote in these awards. I know many have not agreed with the nominees, but the awards will be given to one of them, so be sure to vote for who of the nominees you think should be recognized.

[sebring]

Poll should have included an "none of the above" or write-in space. I can't vote for any of those since I have either no experience or no notable experience with any of them. I don't even consider Handmark as a serious developer. They seem to mostly resell other's work. Also, it would seem that ZZtechs would have won or finished very high in most of those categories.

Also, where is Chris Antos? He is the only developer that has three frequently used apps on my Clie.

[Griff]

I believe next years awards will be done by more of the community than just the user groups. Some how the various groups left PG with these nominees that don't seem to be a huge representation of the visitors to this site.