Apparently, the best software for Macs comes with a hefty price tag, requires classes to learn, and loved by IT departments. Erik Vlietinck in IT Enquirer:
The Award winning applications we are listing win their IT Enquirer Award of Best Software of the decade for consistently delivering the same excellent quality over many years (although not necessarily the full past ten).
Fair enough. The credibility of the list disappears entirely with the first winner:
In the first place we would like to award Adobe its Best Of The Decade Award for Acrobat, Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator. These are four applications that have been around for a long time and which have consistently been upgraded to improve and expand on features.
So why do many customers look for alternatives? How many awards in how many classes?
In the videocast recording and virtual TV market space, Boinx gets the Best Of The Decade Award for BoinxTV, although it does lack an integrated output to uStream, Justin.tv, and other streaming video services. The reason why BoinxTV gets its award nevertheless is that I have yet to see a BoinxTV update that still has bugs in it or which has no interesting new features. BoinxTV also is the easiest to use application in its class.
Have you seen the price tag on BoinxTV? Plenty of awards for high end photographic software and plugins for Photoshop. That means they’re expensive. The most accurate award goes to Panic.
We would like to give Panic Software a Best Of The Decade Award for Coda, Transmit and CandyBar. Panic is one of those developers that consistently succeed in delivering both high-quality products and support—as if they were much bigger companies.
Agreed. The least accurate award goes to… the envelope, please…
The Escapers also find themselves in the same category, earning a Best Of The Decade Award with their flagship product Flux. Flux is well on its way to become a much better Dreamweaver, and even a serious contender for Panic’s Coda!
Ludicrous. Far more ludicrous is Microsoft winning an award—Best Of The Decade Award—for Microsoft Office for Mac. In one of the few awards that make any sense for Mac users who pay attention, is Apple for their Pro Apps.
Interesting list. Nice products. Most (but not all) of them are over-priced, bloated, complex lock-in applications that IT departments love.