[Makki]

The Apple Developer Connection has launched a contest to kickstart the development of widgets for the forthcoming Dashboard feature of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. The developer of the winning widget will receive an Apple 40GB iPod and will receive public recognition. Submissions are being accepted from November 5th through the 30th. The contest is open exclusively to ADC members with access to pre-release versions of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.

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[AveTenebrae]

wow, a iPod for the works of hundreds of designers, ideas of hundreds of designers. What's a big deal from the big apple... and a really cheap work for us..

[NetworkShadow]

Sounds like a great way to get a bunch of widgets made for when Tiger does hit the public. You'd think they'd have more than one iPod prize though...

[mugget]

for once... a competition that i am eligible to enter...

but then they lame it up with only an iPod for a prize?



there must be alot of bored developers sitting out there if Apple thinks they'll get lots of entries for this...

and BTW, how many here are registered there? in actual fact, i can't enter, because i'm not registered on ADC.

[AlbanianGenome]

now offering a new iMac would be a different story

[cybergoober]

Yeah, a $400 iPod is a lame prize for writing a cheesy little Dashboard widget...

[jabackes]

hey, if you guys dont like the prize.. dont enter. its just that simple.. i for one am a student and i would enter, but i have an ipod, and i dont feel like writing a widget right now...

thats just my .02c

[Ji Eun]

Originally posted by jabackes:
thats just my .02c

psst... that's $.02

imo, any gui-focused competition (and especially widgets) is good news. glad to see apple trying to drum up some early output for dashboard, and i can't wait to see what the dev's come up with.

[esXXI]

Wow so many negative comments.. Oh well. I'll be entering with an (eligible) mate of mine.

[Dave-o�]

Originally posted by esXXI:
Wow so many negative comments.. Oh well. I'll be entering with an (eligible) mate of mine.

Since you're a member of "thedashboarder.com" doesn't this defeat the purpose of the widgets you have already made? I know you primarily make the graphics and Chris does the coding.. So who get's the iPod if you win?

[esXXI]

Originally posted by Dave-o�:
Since you're a member of "thedashboarder.com" doesn't this defeat the purpose of the widgets you have already made? I know you primarily make the graphics and Chris does the coding.. So who get's the iPod if you win?

Not sure what you mean by 'defeat[ing] the purpose', what do you mean?

And Chris would, since he does more work than me. Or if he felt like being nice, he could sell it and we'd split the cash.

NB: I do the graphics, but often the one that thinks up features or how things should work/react.

[Dave-o�]

Oh i was just rib'n you....

[bentoon]

but now that Konfabulator is cross platform I think there will be more developed for Konfabulator
Think?

[Dave-o�]

bentoon... that depends on the developer.. The widgets need to be coded cross platform as well..

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally posted by bentoon:
but now that Konfabulator is cross platform I think there will be more developed for Konfabulator
Think?

Nope. The people who do that stuff on the Windows side already write for other Apps (It has been on the Windows side for awhile)

Plus I don't think Windows users will warm up to it quite so readily, as 3 of the 5 Widgets that are on the starting widget page won't function properly on Windows without some extra software.


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