The Annual Apple Design Awards acknowledge both Mac and iPhone applications, and is judges by a team of engineers inside Apple. This year 65 engineers judged the entries to find just a handful of winners’ reports macworld.

The criteria for winning included technology integration & adoption, connectedness, localization, technological innovation, performance tuning & optimisation, and design & quality.

Winners were…iPhone… Best iPhone Student App – Wooden Labyrinth 3D…Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App – Intermap Technologies’s AccuTerra…iPhone Developer Showcase awards – atebits’s Twitter-client Tweetie and Topple 2, by ngmoco, and MLB.com At Bat 2009.