Apple nearing 1 billion apps served
Almost $13,000 in Apple gear awaits the person lucky enough to download the 1 billionth App Store app.
(Credit: Apple)Apple is approaching the 1 billion mark for applications downloaded from the App Store, and plans to give out a host of Apple gear to the lucky billionth customer.
The company put up a countdown Web page Friday as it gets closer to the mark: as of this writing, about 928 million applications have been downloaded from the App Store since it went live last July, according to the counter. Whoever manages to download the 1 billionth application will come away with a pretty good haul: a MacBook Pro, a 32GB iPod Touch, a Time Capsule, and a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate.
Somewhere north of 30,000 applications have made their way onto the App Store to fuel those 1 billion downloads. Along with the promotion, Apple released some stats on the top downloads in both the paid and free categories: Facebook has been downloaded the most times among the free applications, while Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D has received the most downloads among paid applications.
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Looking at the official rules, the contest ENDS when the 1 billionth app is purchased. Again, official terms: "The Promotion shall run from 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 10, 2009 and ends with the downloading of the 1 billionth app (?Promotion Period?)."
So, anyone who buys an app between 4/10/09 and the moment of the billionth purchase is eligible for the prize. Also, there is a max entry of 25 per itunes account.
"The prize will be awarded for the entry (either through an app download or through the non-purchase online entry) sent immediately following the download of the 999,999,999th app."
I'll see if Apple will clarify.
So we have a few million idiots with a toy downloading 100s or 1000s of free useless apps.
My favorite is the bill splitter at a restaurant: Lets see Bill divided by 5.
Some might call this brand new app a calculator but to mactards, its "innovative" a an application worth a spot on an Apple commercial. **** this is a prime example of the typical "innovative" app for the iphone!
I wonder what people like you act like outside of the internet. It's funny but I'm not laughing with you.
How could you abusing yourself with that buggy O.S everyday
has probably made you forget about simple things like that
It's also Funny how your beloved Meetoosoft will be following suit
with their own app store soon
and guess wat you'll have the exact same apps on you're
unusable WinMo phone as well probably in about a year !
enjoy your harassment -:)
Even if you download now, you still have a CHANCE. The rules also said that if the regular winner somehow forfeits the prize, the next winner will be RANDOMLY selected. So if you don't want to try to waste your time watching the counter and getting it just right, you better hope the winner does something wrong.
Why would you waste your time responding to that opinion? If you do not like it don?t response to it. Personally I thought it was funny.
But do you really want to tell me what to do online? Where is this leading to?
Mind of Mencia Voice
DOoo dooo doooo!
When it says "Download any app and you automatically get the chance to win..." well, technically, you still have a (REALLY small) chance even if you download apps/submit forms NOW, BEFORE the BILLIONTH app, because the last person could forfeit or something.
Also, on a different note, in the Rules page, it says the retail value is some random number ABOVE $13,000 not "almost $13,000" as the caption of this article's image says. I haven't checked prices myself, but I'm just pointing it out.
This should be a lesson to every business that innovation steals the market. If you don't reinvent youself continuously, understand clearly that you are only in business now because no other company in your market space is reaching into the future. And that two months after someone get guts, you will be wondering what happened to your bottom line -- six months later you're toast.
And don't get me started about goverment and innovation -- A look at NASA's Shuttle with tiles you literally glue on and a computer that was obsolete 30 years ago gives a glimpse what will happen if we let any government official have anything to do with the way private industry is run..
they should have a better prize, like being head of Apple for a day.(Retarted I know, but still kinda cool...)
- by colton_rob April 12, 2009 9:21 AM PDT
- Wait... I'm confused. It says "sweepstakes" on the heading of the prize. Is it a sweepstakes or is it a 1,000,000,000th app downloaded thing?
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