Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark 195
alphadogg writes "The Apple App Store hit the 10 billion app download mark overnight on Friday, marking a milestone involving an awful lot of Doodle Jump, Tap Tap Revenge and Angry Birds playing, not to mention Facebook and Pandora usage. The Apple App Store hit the 1 billion mark in April of 2009, after opening in July of 2008. Apple is rewarding the downloader of the 10 billionth free or paid App Store app with a $10,000 iTunes gift card in a bit of showmanship that Willy Wonka would be proud of. As of 7AM EST, however, Apple hadn't publicly identified the winner, only saying that you'd need to come back later to find out who won. Apple put an iOS app countdown ticker on its Website last week to build buzz around the milestone and generated about 250 million app downloads since. It also revealed a list of all-time most downloaded free and paid iPhone and iPad apps." The winner of the $10k is Gail Davis, a British woman whose children installed an app without her knowledge. She actually thought the phone call from Apple was a prank at first. "My daughters told me they had downloaded it and they knew there was a competition and that we may have won it," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
OS X is in no way backgrounded (Score:5, Informative)
has put Macs and OS X to the background is not so nice and geeky anymore.
That's not at all true. OS X and the computers they make have been updated with around the sam regularity as before. And if Apple was putting OS X in the background why would they have just launched a whole App Store dedicated to the Mac? If anything they are trying strongly to migrate some portion of the very large developer base they have amassed into doing Mac software too.
Re:Taxes (Score:3, Informative)
You don't have to pay tax on your winnings in the UK.
Yes you do, if you didn't pay tax on the original bet. I don't know if this applies to competitions, but it does to wagers.
Illiterate cuntbags (Score:1, Informative)
Who is children?
Re:UNIX (Score:4, Informative)
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
So how do you pipe iApps together to perform more complex tasks?
AppleScript and Automator
Instead of being limited to only stdin, stdout, and stderr, they let you pipe objects between apps and even let you put the end result as text to use with stdin on a command line tool and back again.
There are plenty of examples [macworld.com] for both [macworld.com] languages on how to do most scripting/piping tasks with not just iApps but most OS X applications.
Script editor even lets you compile your apple scripts and automations down to applications, which gives you the same functionality as a shell script starting with #!/bin/bash and being chmod +x
Here is a nice screen shot [macosxautomation.com] of the GUI Automator editor showing the apps it can put together, some actions in the app it has selected, and the methodology for putting together each bit of the script you want to do, coincidentally using an iApp.
For anyone who's good at Excel formulas or macros, Automator will be a snap. Similarly, anyone used to shell scripting will find Apple script just as easy.
Re:and 10k is like what 3 mac pros? (Score:4, Informative)
the dual processor mac pro starts at $3500 and you only get 6gb ram and a 1TB hdd at that price. So 10k I can only get 2. But for 1.5k-2.5k you can get build one and get a real raid card / on board hardware raid.
Apple wants $700 more for a 4 port raid card. But high end server cards on the pc with more ports are like $300.