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Best New Mac OS X App: Transmit 4. That’s the FTP application that makes dual-GPU laptops switch to the high-power one… for an FTP transfer. Okay, it’s arguably a design flaw in OS X rather than Transmit’s fault, so how about this instead: it’s the 4.0 that makes the app’s most unique and useful functionality, DockSend, ten times slower than in the previous versions.

Best Mac OS X User Experience: Tweetie for Mac. No, it’s not. It takes half your screen to display what most other apps can condense in a third of the space, and makes the user experience arguably less pleasant and immediate for most users (I’m a geek, so I don’t mind, but don’t tell me that having to click a tiny button or use a keyboard shortcut to post a tweet is good OS X user experience).

Most Innovative Mac OS X App: Dropbox. As far as I’m concerned, Dropbox is ineligible for any Mac-related awards as long as it maims your files beyond salvation by ignoring the resource fork — silently killing your web shortcuts, clippings, and apps. That’s been my pet peeve for a while, but with good reason, I’d argue.

And, regardless of my objections, those choices are horribly obvious and uninteresting. All I’m saying is, maybe Apple did just fine to drop Mac software from the WWDC design awards this year.