Screaming Penguin

I have to play the curmudgeon once in a while, it's just my style ;). This time it's pertaining to the Ars MacWorld Best of Show list. In a word, lame. I'm not there, I haven't seen these apps in person, I don't know what I am talking about, granted - but still Filemaker?, WebEx on an iPhone? and a file server from HP are among the top 10? Really, that's the "best" in the entire show? I won't go into Filemaker, nuff said. As for WebEx on a phone, that's cool and all, but WebEx itself completely sucks to begin with (if they had built it in a non stupid manner from the outset then it wouldn't really have taken much to port at all, and it would work on my Wii and on any phone with a full browser out of the gate - a "web" app that requires ActiveX, or whatever Microsoft calls their native crap now, which is what WebEx used last time I was forced to be subjected to it - is not a "web" app and it causes stuff like it working on a phone browser to make people say "WOW" when it should have worked there in the first place - Cooper built an Ajax web meeting thing for our GWT book, that works on my Wii and my Android emulator, for instance.) And a fileserver from HP that's a PC but supports Mac - oh my, woot on that one (that hasn't been already possible on your own for 3 decades?). Ok, to be honest I don't really think all these these things are completely lame on their own (well, save for WebEx ;)), but in the context of best of show for 2009? Some of the other stuff mentioned seems nice, new iPhoto, SlingBox, but still doesn't really seem all that innovative to be honest.