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.
Kids these days (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Great, but... (Score:2, Interesting)
I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it
They still make great hardware and a nice OS to go with it. It may not be directly targeted at the geek crowd that browses Slashdot (although it can work great for those people too) but to the average person on the street it matches pretty well with what they are looking for in a computer/phone/browsing device.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway? I've been karma capped for years and it's all-too-easy to make up the few mod points I'll get hit for posting something against the "mainstream" here.
Re:Taxes (Score:3, Interesting)
You don't have to pay tax on your winnings in the UK.
Or Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, and a bunch of other places.
The question being... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Kids these days (Score:5, Interesting)
Er, that's not very similar. These kids downloaded a free app without their mother's knowledge. Your kids are thieves.
Re:Offtopic (Score:3, Interesting)
Given that you already had your finger on it, wouldn't it have just been easier to hit the D key again?
Looks like the retards have got bored with buggering (sorry, bug'ering) up plurals and now they're trying to do the same to past participles.