Apple's 1 billionth app download predicted for April 23
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Apple)
We could stare at the countdown tickers on Worldometers all day. Wow, 10.3 billion toilets have been flushed so far today! So it's no wonder we love the Apple App store contest with its mesmerizing flipping numbers counting us down to the 1 billionth app download, when some lucky punter will win shedloads of Mac stuff and a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
As the hour approaches--we're topping 988 million and change at the time of this writing--Mobile Squared, a U.K. research company, is helping us game the system by figuring out when the crucial moment will occur. According to its totally unchecked calculations, D-Day is this Thursday afternoon, April 23, U.K. time (Thursday morning in the U.S.)--so that's two days for another 13 million downloads, app fans.
Mobile Squared notes that it took almost six months to reach its 500 million app downloads on January 19, and the following 500 million downloads have taken just 94 days, so the rate is picking up.
If you want to get in on the action, you don't even need an iPhone or iPod Touch: just enter online at the Apple Web site. We'd love the irony if an Apple hater won, so get involved.
(Via Crave UK)
The thing is, what am I going to do with a $10,000 iTunes gift card? They probably won't make it transferable so I won't be able to sell it. Oh well, I can sell the other stuff. ;)