Products have life history of their own , and Macworld Best of Show winners are no exception . No one can predict what will happen to a product after it wins an award .
Many Macworld / iWorld event and Macworld Expos have come and gone . Most of the Best of Show recipients be today , and others disappeared . A few products , though , have a unique history worth research — this slideshow takes a flavor at the stories of those few .
The first mass - produced MP3 histrion appeared in 1997 , but it took about two eld for the first Mac - friendly portable MP3 thespian to come to market . As a Mac pioneer , the Rio PMP 500 was recognized with a adept of Show honour at Macworld Expo held in New York City .
Two year later , Appleunveiled the iPod , which eventually became the macrocosm ’s most popular portable medicine participant .
SoundJam MP was the first MP3 software for the Mac and was bundled with the PMP 500 , though it could be used as a remain firm - alone app . It also succeed Best of Show at the New York Expo .
In 2000 , Apple bought the right to SoundJam MP from developer Casady & Greene and used it as the groundwork for iTunes . iTuneswon Best of Showat the San Francisco Macworld Expo in 2001 . Casady & Greene went out of byplay in 2003 .
Axiotroncreated Mac - base tablets by modifying Apple MacBooks . The tablets required the use of a stylus and had a Core 2 Duo CPU , hard private road , optical drive , and work up - in GPS . The companionship ’s first Mac pad , the Modbook , won Best of Showat the San Francisco Macworld Expo .
Axiotron eventually go out of business , but co - laminitis Andreas E. Haas still believes in the Mac tablet . His novel company is calledModbookand the newModbook Prois available for $ 3499 .
A winner at the San Francisco Macworld Expo , theMacworldeditors recognized IE for its “ important productiveness improvement . ” The web browser app was bundled with the Mac OS . It ’s sluttish to forget that IE wasthebrowser for the Mac .
In 2000 , IE 5 was released , but fit in to areportby a former Microsoft employee , the exploitation team was redeployed , and IE for Mac was practically vacate . Microsoft offically killed IE for Mac in 2003 .
iPhoto is a Mac mainstay , used by millions of users to unionise their photos . At the San Francisco Macworld Expo , Apple introduced Events , Faces , Places , and Flickr and Facebook integration to iPhoto ’ 09 , all expectant feature of speech that made it an easy selection forBest of Show .
However , a few calendar week before Expo , Appleannouncedthat the 2009 show would be the company ’s last . And so iPhoto ’ 09 holds the distinction of being the last Apple Cartesian product to gain Best of Show .
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