1 Billion iTunes Contest 141
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."
free entries (Score:5, Informative)
Um, no. From the Official Rules [apple.com]:
Hah. (Score:4, Informative)
Will Apple provide low interest financing to the winner so that they can pay for the taxes? Otherwise they probably threw in the extra 9 iPods just to make it more prohibitively expensive & hope that the winner can't claim the prize.
Re:Doing Well? (Score:2, Informative)
Suddenly companies are required to give away a substantial proportion of their earnings in contents?
Not to mention your definition of "gross" is a little off since they only get $0.33/song, the rest going to the labels. Then they pay for bandwidth, maintenance, managers, etc. So how much "profit" they are making is up for question, not that it makes the prize worth 50% of their earnings or anything.
Re:Entry open to... (Score:4, Informative)
The MZFinance.MZAlternateEntryForm.Zip field must be at least 5 characters.
I mean, no mention of the scholarship? (Score:5, Informative)
Apple will create a full-ride scholarship in your name to a world-renowned music school.
Classy.
Re:Doing Well? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't mind taking the ocasional troll rating, but atleast let people understand what I was trolling!
-Rick
Re:Hah. (Score:4, Informative)
That's okay, neither do we.
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Re:The Trade-offs (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The Trade-offs (Score:3, Informative)
You had a typo there. It should have read:
no cause Apple only gets about 15 cents to every dollar if Im not mistaken while the record company/RIAA gets the rest.