Easy! Write your own app, and submit it to the app store. Set the price to $10000 and buy it with your gift card. You'll get $7000 in cash.
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Apple's App Store Reaches 25 Billion Downloads, Now on Pace for 15 Billion Apps Per Year
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Easy! Write your own app, and submit it to the app store. Set the price to $10000 and buy it with your gift card. You'll get $7000 in cash.
I think they will manage! haha
One (1) winner will receive one (1) iTunes Gift Card for credit in an amount equal to USD $10,000
With US crappy $ that will be a bonus to all of us outside the US! YAY
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Easy! Write your own app, and submit it to the app store. Set the price to $10000 and buy it with your gift card. You'll get $7000 in cash.
Who covers the cost if you ask for a refund.... "My kid brought by accident..." if you see where im heading haha
Thanks to the contest I finally bought Gometry Wars! Awesome retro game, hope it's a double win scenario
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/geometry-wars-touch/id364175436?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/geometry-wars-touch/id364175436?mt=8
Easy! Write your own app, and submit it to the app store. Set the price to $10000 and buy it with your gift card. You'll get $7000 in cash.
You can't set the price of an app to to be over $1000.
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No you cannot. Only iTunes music, movies, TV shows, etc. and iBooks, and App Store apps.
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I had just downloaded an app just before the posting of this thread.
I had just downloaded an app just before the posting of this thread.
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Hopefully someone who downloaded their first app after six months and not knowing about the contest won.
Their mind would be blown. How much will a 10k gift card fetch in eBay ?
Hopefully someone who downloaded their first app after six months and not knowing about the contest won.
Their mind would be blown. How much will a 10k gift card fetch in eBay ?
Apple too big to follow laws?
So big business and they still cannot obey the EU law that says a business to business sale within EU should be VAT exempted.
Apple´s laziness means all other companies within EU will have to pay VAT unnecessary.
Are Apple to big to care about the law?
So big business and they still cannot obey the EU law that says a business to business sale within EU should be VAT exempted.
Apple´s laziness means all other companies within EU will have to pay VAT unnecessary.
Are Apple to big to care about the law?
Why would it be anything other than marketing?
That doesn't make it evil. You would want to win, wouldn't you?
Apple Finally fixes WiFi iMac and No One Cares
Guess no one cares that Apple FINALLY fixed the ***** WiFi issue on the iMac last night. Being an Apple owner drives me nuts, their arrogance knows no bounds. The sell me a $1,800 computer that can't even stay connected to the Internet.
Its NEVER their hardware's fault, always the router fault, until they quietly issue a fix 4 months after I purchase it.
I'm glad it's fixed now, but I want more even handed reporting when a major issue like this does occur.
Apple WiFi software on all their devices is janky crap until it's fixed - the same thing happened with the iPad 2 and I'm willing to bet it'll happen with the iPad 3. WiFi will be broken for 6 months and everyone will just shrug it off like it's no big deal until Apple "quietly" issues a patch to fix it.
As someone who literally owns almost every Apple product - iMac, Macbook Pro, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV, I will not buy another device from them because of this. At the very least I will not purchase during the first year.
Guess no one cares that Apple FINALLY fixed the ***** WiFi issue on the iMac last night. Being an Apple owner drives me nuts, their arrogance knows no bounds. The sell me a $1,800 computer that can't even stay connected to the Internet.
Its NEVER their hardware's fault, always the router fault, until they quietly issue a fix 4 months after I purchase it.
I'm glad it's fixed now, but I want more even handed reporting when a major issue like this does occur.
Apple WiFi software on all their devices is janky crap until it's fixed - the same thing happened with the iPad 2 and I'm willing to bet it'll happen with the iPad 3. WiFi will be broken for 6 months and everyone will just shrug it off like it's no big deal until Apple "quietly" issues a patch to fix it.
As someone who literally owns almost every Apple product - iMac, Macbook Pro, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV, I will not buy another device from them because of this. At the very least I will not purchase during the first year.
I probably spent around 10k on iTunes store in the last 4-5 years, so it'd be nice to have everything free for the next 4-5 years.
1% Outta Here
You must be in the 1% if you are unhappy getting a $10,000 bonus for uploading an app!
You must be in the 1% if you are unhappy getting a $10,000 bonus for uploading an app!
Yea, EXACTLY! ! ! Going to buy $10000 in apps? A $500billion++ company with $100billion++ in cash, who has tremendous markup on their products, offers a credit toward digital content. Nice offer and they didn't have to do it (although it bursted their sales I am sure) but lets not act like Apple has done anything great here.
Exactly my thought.
Now, $10,000 in the Apple Store - I could definitely find ways to spend that amount.
But $10,000 in apps and music!!??
You'd have to spend a fortune to set up a NAS to hold $10,000 worth of apps and music.
Seesh. It's a freaking contest. Nothing more or less. This was never intended to be a humanitarian effort so why act like it was? It was merely to hype the App Store and promote the fact that iOS apps are really popular ahead of the iPad 3 announcement. The contest cost them less than one ad spot at 4am in NYC but generated more publicity than a $4M SuperBowl ad. That's pretty genius on Apple's part.
But the winner here could end up being the loser. Taxes have to be paid on the $10K, which could end up being $1K or more. To a casual d/ler that's a hefty prepayment. If I were the winner I'd donate the entire amount to a school and take the tax deduction instead.
I wonder who it will be? Hopefully someone from this site.
Strange, I was just on the Apple site 15 or so minutes ago and they still had that timer...? Guess I should have downloaded an app
Based on that timer, the 25 billionth should have been reached TOMORROW night.
And to those who are downplaying the people who complain about it only being $10,000 worth of software ... I agree. For a prize to be a prize, it should have more value. Let it be used on hardware as well as software.
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You did WHAT?
There's your one per cent-er.
EXACTLY, I'd rather have $10,000 at the Apple store. $10,000 in iTunes content is a bit redundant.
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Wow that would have to destroy their bandwidth cap from their ISP
Wow that would have to destroy their bandwidth cap from their ISP