Apple Design Awards makes Splorp famous

Well, kind of. It helps if you know who he is.

“Splorp”” is actually Grant Hutchinson, a big Newton MessagePad fan and keeper of the Newtontalk list (which seems to be down as of this posting – here’s the Twitter feed), the Newted Community, and his own personal site (and, above, his Twitter feed).

Anyway, one of the 2008 Apple Design Award winner for “Best iPhone Social Networking Application” was Twitterrific for the iPhone, and his picture is right there on Apple’s web site. Kind of cool.

He might not even know it yet, but I’ll let him know right now. Because, you know, us Newton users need all the help we can get, right?

When I first got my iBook, back in November 2005, I saw a Celldweller CD sitting on one of the desktops on Apple’s “Get to know your Mac” tutorial sites. Being a fan, I let him know, and he seemed to appreciate it. “I know we have some fans over at Apple,” Clayton told me.

2 comments.

  1. Hey Dave. Thanks for the mention. Yes, I did know about this earlier today thanks to a tweet from @panache. Oh, and NewtonTalk is still up and running. Not sure what happened there.

  2. No problem – I thought it was kind of cool. Weird on NewtonTalk: it wouldn’t load for me last night, but now it’s fine.

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