App Store Milestone - About to hit 1 Billion Apps downloaded

[aphex]

http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/

It hasn't even been out a year. That is just simply insane.

 

[Injury]

I wonder if they'll do something incredible for the person that gets the milestone download like they do for music.

On July 1, 2004, Apple announced that, starting with the sale of the 95 millionth song, an iPod would be given away to the buyer of each 100 thousandth song, for a total of 50 iPods. The buyer of the 100 millionth song would receive a PowerBook, iPod, and US$10,000 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store.

Ten days later, on July 11, Apple announced that 100 million songs had been sold through the iTunes Music Store. The 100 millionth song was titled "Somersault (Dangermouse Remix)" by Zero 7, purchased by Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas. He then received a phone call from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who offered his congratulations, as well as a 40 GB 3rd Generation iPod laser-engraved with a message of thanks.

edit: Indeed.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/

Winner gets a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. You are allowed 25 entries per day.

 

[TheStu]

They say that the MacBook Pro is 'fully loaded' I wonder what that means exactly. I mean I guess it would be the upper level MacBook Pro 15" with full RAM, and the highest capacity hard drive. That is somewhere around $3000 IIRC. So I mean, wow that is a whole lot of prize.

The best part is that in the event that the winner cannot think of what they want to spend $10,000 on at the iTunes store you can refuse the gift card and Apple would be required to give you $10,000 cash (at least if I am remembering the rules/laws correctly). Or if for example they don't want the MacBook Pro because they already have one/don't want a Mac the same can happen.

Heck a person could just refuse it all and practically buy a new car.

 

[Injury]

They probably mean that it has the best specs that it can and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see 3 years of Apple Care and all of their flagship software packages... Essentially what you get when you check "Yes" to nearly everything when configuring a new MBP

 

[mmntech]

Originally posted by: Injury
I wonder if they'll do something incredible for the person that gets the milestone download like they do for music.

On July 1, 2004, Apple announced that, starting with the sale of the 95 millionth song, an iPod would be given away to the buyer of each 100 thousandth song, for a total of 50 iPods. The buyer of the 100 millionth song would receive a PowerBook, iPod, and US$10,000 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store.

Ten days later, on July 11, Apple announced that 100 million songs had been sold through the iTunes Music Store. The 100 millionth song was titled "Somersault (Dangermouse Remix)" by Zero 7, purchased by Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas. He then received a phone call from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who offered his congratulations, as well as a 40 GB 3rd Generation iPod laser-engraved with a message of thanks.

edit: Indeed.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/

Winner gets a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. You are allowed 25 entries per day.

Not bad but I'd rather have $10,000 cash instead of the gift card. That's A LOT of music. Can I exchange it for a fully loaded MacPro? 😛

 

[Kmax82]

According to the rules this time, it's a random drawing, so the person that buys the billionth app isn't any more likely to win than any other, from what I'm understanding. Maybe I'm misreading it though.

Either way, amazing prizes!

 

[mugs]

Those are some awesome prizes, but I'd have a hard time spending a $10k iTunes gift card. :Q

 

[JC86]

With a $10,000 itunes gift card, you'd be selling your soul to Apple. movies, music, cell phone apps. Not that i haven't already with my second iphone, macbook etc. 🙂

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
According to the rules this time, it's a random drawing, so the person that buys the billionth app isn't any more likely to win than any other, from what I'm understanding. Maybe I'm misreading it though.

Either way, amazing prizes!

"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. The potential winner will be determined by the order of the entries received. In the event that more than one entrant would be a winner based on the simultaneous timing of entries, one entrant will be randomly selected from those entrants as the winner."

 

[Kmax82]

Ok.. I gotcha.. didn't have time to read that intently. Guess I should setup 1Password for some auto form filling action.. 😀

 

[mmntech]

Originally posted by: JC86
With a $10,000 itunes gift card, you'd be selling your soul to Apple. movies, music, cell phone apps. Not that i haven't already with my second iphone, macbook etc. 🙂

If a song costs $0.99 and is on average three minutes long, that's 30,000 minutes worth of music. That's enough for almost 21 days strait of continuous playback! You'd be selling your soul to RIAA as well. 😛

I'd still rather have it in cash though.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: TheStu
They say that the MacBook Pro is 'fully loaded' I wonder what that means exactly. I mean I guess it would be the upper level MacBook Pro 15" with full RAM, and the highest capacity hard drive. That is somewhere around $3000 IIRC. So I mean, wow that is a whole lot of prize.

The best part is that in the event that the winner cannot think of what they want to spend $10,000 on at the iTunes store you can refuse the gift card and Apple would be required to give you $10,000 cash (at least if I am remembering the rules/laws correctly). Or if for example they don't want the MacBook Pro because they already have one/don't want a Mac the same can happen.

Heck a person could just refuse it all and practically buy a new car.

It says in the official rules that it's a 17" macbook pro, and the total value is a little over $13k.