1 Billion iTunes Contest

pvt_medic writes "Apple has announced their newest contest for the 1 Billionth iTunes song downloaded. Every 100,000 downloads someone will win an iPod nano and a $100 giftcard, with the grand prize being an iMac, 10 iPod (60GB), and $10,000 credit at iTunes. Looks like business is going well for Apple."

Re:May I Be The First To Say..

[catch23]

A 600GB raid-0 array!

Dear Winner:

[Anonymous Crowhead]

Good luck with your taxes in 2007.

We'll be watching.

The IRS

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Re:May I Be The First To Say..

[__aaclcg7560]

How about a 540GB RAID-5 array? That's still a half-terabyte that will survive if one iPod explodes for some mysterious reason. Not that Apple would ever put out an exploding (*cough* laptop *cough*) product.

Sign of the times

[The-Bus]

You can tell that iTunes is being embraced by everyone when the top-selling songs are "Grillz" by Nelly, "Shake That" by Eminem and "L.O.V.E." by Ashlee Simpson.

Does video downloads count...

[__aaclcg7560]

Does anyone know if video downloads count in this contest? Winning the grand prize while downloading the latest episode of Battlestar Galatica would be awesome!

Re:free entries

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymity. The sign of cowardice.

Re:May I Be The First To Say..

[afaik_ianal]

Some people have ten friends...

On Slashdot?!? You must be new here.

Little-known exception

[Carpe PM]

If the billionth song is a Michael Bolton tune they are skipped and the winner will be the next one.

Time to drag out this old chestnut:

[This Old Chestnut]

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me."

-- Abe Simpson

Re:No incentive to use iTunes

[Anonymous Crowhead]

What?! Could you speak up a little bit? I'm having a little trouble hearing you over all the noise this cash is making.

Sincerely,

Steve Jobs

Re:free entries

[Anonymous Coward]

recursive post, the sign of someone who likes a good paradox!

Re:The Trade-offs

[softspokenrevolution]

That's right, because every $.99 is pure profit for apple

Re:Additional prize...

[dr.badass]

It would be hot to have something named after you.

I read that about two seconds after misreading your user name as "ASSanator". Needless to say, I found it amusing.

Re:No incentive to use iTunes

[iainl]

Quoth the modded-down AC (sadly, I think it's mildly amusing): "There's no real incentive to use iTunes, in any case, if you're not running Windows or a Mac, and even less so if you don't have an iPod."

Well, um, no. In other news, there is very little incentive to buy fuel if you don't own a car to put it in, barely a point to buying DVDs without a player of some kind, and deaf people don't buy very many CDs.

Quite what this insight has to offer the debate, I'm not sure, however.

Re:The Trade-offs

[Anonymous Coward]

It is if they get their mp3's from the same place I do.