Best iOS App: Overcast – Lifetime Achievement

Upgradians:

• Tweetbot – 4.9%

• Apollo – 11.8%

• Carrot Weather – 15.7%

JS:

• Scriptable

• NetNewsWire

• Broadcasts

• Carrot Weather

MH:

• Timery

• Carrot Weather

Best Newcomer iOS App:

Upgradians:

• Affirmations – 7.2%

• Obsidian – 8%

• Amplosion – 10%

JS:

• Noir

• Taio

• Mela

MH:

• Super Agent for Safari

Best Mac App:

Upgradians:

• Pixelmator Pro – 3.9%

• Obsidian – 6.3%

• Craft – 7.3%

JS:

• SwiftBar

• Bartender

• Mimestream

MH:

• Cleanshot X

Best Newcomer Mac App:

Upgradians:

• Craft – 9%

• Mimestream – 11.2%

• Shortcuts – 16.4%

JS:

• SwiftBar

• Mimestream

• Shortcuts

MH:

• Timery

• Mimestream

Game of the Year:

Upgradians:

• Halo Infinite – 4.5%

• Forza Horizon 5 – 8.5%

• Metroid Dread – 13.8%

JS:

• Eleven Table Tennis

• Beat Saber

MH:

• Forza Horizon 5

iOS Game of the Year:

Upgradians:

• Good Soduku+ – 4.6%

• Mini Motorways – 5%

• Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City – 5.5%

JS:

• Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City

• Mini Motorways

• Good Sudoku

MH:

• Jetpack Joyride+

Favourite Movie:

Upgradians:

• No Time to Die – 9%

• Shang Chi – 15.9%

• Dune – 27.5%

JS:

• Promising Young Woman

• CODA

• Spider-Man: No Way Home

• Never Rarely Sometimes Always

• Nomadland

• In & Of Itself

• First Cow

MH:

• Spider-Man: No Way Home

• Encanto

Favourite TV Show:

Upgradians:

• Foundation – 11.4%

• Loki – 14.6%

• Ted Lasso – 21.7%

JS:

• For All Mankind

• Hacks

• Loki

• Only Murders in the Building

• Invincible

• It’s a Sin

• What We Do In The Shadows

MH:

• Ted Lasso

• The Morning Show

• For All Mankind

• Loki

• Dexter: New Blood

Favourite Book:

Upgradians:

• Leviathan Falls, by James SA Corey – 7%

• The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green – 7%

• Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir – 17.6%

JS:

• Piranesi

• Black Sun

• The Galaxy and the Ground Within

• The Hidden Palace

• Gnomon

• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

• Divine Cities trilogy

Favourite Apple Product: Upgradians:

• iPad mini – 12.2%

• MacBook Pro 16 – 12.7%

• MacBook Pro 14 – 27.6%

JS:

• 24-inch M1 iMac

MH:

• 14” MacBook Pro

• iPad mini

Best Non-Apple Product:

Upgradians:

• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 - 3.1%

• Google Pixel 6 Pro – 3.5%

• Nintendo Switch OLED – 9.7%

JS:

• Kobo Libra 2

MH:

• Switch OLED

Worst Gadget/Most Disappointing Tech:

Upgradians:

• Apple Watch Series 7 – 3.4%

• Meta/Facebook – 8.3%

• NFT – 8.8%

JS:

• Breville Joule Sous Vide

MH:

• AppleCare+

Most Life-Changing Hardware:

Upgradians:

• iPad Pro (M1) – 4.5%

• Apple Watch – 6.2%

• 14” MacBook Pro – 7.6%

JS:

• Apple TV Remote

MH:

• 14” MacBook Pro

Favourite Tech Story:

Upgradians:

• MacBook Pro – 9.2%

• M1 Pro and Max – 9.2%

• App Store Regulation – 10.8%

JS:

• 99.9% fake Warhols www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…

MH:

• Apple Silicon

• App Store Regulation

• Lauren Goode on Photo Memories www.wired.com/story/wed…

Favourite Tech Screw Up:

Upgradians:

• App Store Regulation – 6.6%

• Apple’s CSAM Announcement – 8%

• Meta/Facebook – 30.5%

JS:

• Apple’s CSAM Announcement

MH:

• Apple’s CSAM Announcement

Favourite Tech Podcast: ATP – Lifetime Achievement

Upgradians:

• Dithering – 5.6%

• Upgrade – 18.8%

• Connected – 29.5%

JS:

• The Rebound

• Automators

• Under the Radar

• AppStories

• Mac Power Users

• Connected

MH:

• Mac Power Users

Favourite Non-Tech Podcast: The Flop House – Lifetime Achievement

Upgradians:

• Do By Friday – 2.9%

• Cortex – 5.9%

• Reconcilable Differences – 6.7%

JS:

• For All Mankind

• Foundation

• The Poscast

• Cortex

• RecDiffs

MH:

• Talking Sopranos

Favourite Podcast Newcomer:

Upgradians:

• Football is Life! – 3.1%

• Conduit – 4.8%

• Downstream – 28.5%

JS:

MH: Downstream

1. There are two types of Pickies: Annual Pickies and WWDC Pickies. No other Pickies shall ever be introduced.
2. The winner of the Annual Pickies is named Grand Admiral Pickerton, and retains the title for the full year.
3. The WWDC Pickies winner is named the San Jose Shindig King, and retains the title until the next WWDC is held.
4. Order for Annual Pickies and WWDC Pickies is based on the winner of the previous year.
5. The winner goes second. The losers flip a coin to determine who goes first and who goes third. Jason is the only person who is allowed to flip a coin, and cannot use any apps to do so.
6. To earn any points, everything written down in the prediction document must come true.
7. There are no half points awarded in any round, but other fractions are allowed.
8. Three points are awarded for any pick deemed correct in the first round.
9. Two points are awarded for any pick deemed correct in the second round.
10. One point will be awarded for correct picks in the lightning round.
11. Any pick that comes true in the first half of the year is worth double.
12. Your total percentage (expressed as a fraction) of wrong answers will be multiplied by five and deducted from your final score.
13. The two other hosts must agree that at least one of your picks is “not obvious”, and one of your picks is “pretty cool”.
14. Every pick has to be related to Apple or the tech industry.
15. No picking things that the picker of the pick could make come true by themselves or by inducing others, including taking a job at Apple.
16. No picking things that are not provably true or false. Whether or not you can prove a negative is best left for the philosophers.
17. No altering the prediction document after the show is over. We all remember what happened in 2020.
18. After scoring is complete, each host must place the official Pickies Refrigerator Magnets in the proper configuration on their refrigerator for the next year. Winner at the center of the door, second place in the lower left corner, third place in the lower right corner.
19. The winner of each competition will be given access to the @wwdcshindigking and @pickiesadmiral twitter accounts, as appropriate.