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Apple Announces Winner of 1 Billion App Contest

southernpaws said:
Like I said, I made the same assumption. I didn't take the time to read all the rules of the contest, so I made the same mistake everyone else did. All I'm saying is that there's no reason to cry foul when you didn't even pay attention to the rules.

Obviously, if they had clearly said the billionth app gets it and started the counter at 933 million, it would have taken forever to get to a billion because everyone would be sniping for it. If they had waited til closer to a billion, then nobody would have known about it. So the reasoning for leaving it obscure is there.

I mean really. they were giving away something for free. They weren't taking anybody's money. There's nothing to complain about.
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I'm glad you basically agree with me, but out reaction to it is different. I personally don't care that I didn't win. I never expect to win a contest like this. But I think people have the right to complain about it. I don't think it's fair that the ad avoided telling what was arguably the most important part of the contest—how the winner would be selected.

Markov said:
To all of those who are complaining: Apple owes you nothing, the 13 year old kid won, get over it, it's over, crying about it won't make you the winner. I say this with all due respect.
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Schtumple said:
I'm sorry but the "discussion" in this thread is pathetic, you're honestly saying the contest was misleading, HONESTLY, and not just because you didn't win, this thread seems to just be filled with a bunch of pissed off brats who are jealous they didn't win.
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It's possible to think the ad was misleading without thinking Apple owes me something, and without being jealous or having ill-will towards the person who won. I guess it's a lot easier to dismiss an argument by (mis)characterizing the people making it than to actually try to refute their argument...

I haven't seen anyone with a convincing argument showing why the ad was not misleading. I think it was misleading, whether intentionally or not. It's not some mom-and-pop operation we're talking about here, it's a Fortune 100 company. With a number of people unclear on how the contest worked, certainly someone could have made the ad clearer so people knew how the contest actually worked. That's all I'm saying.
 
TJ10 said:
I'm Jealous
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Haha, me too. And a little 13 year old?! :rolleyes:

I'm assuming he already has an iPod Touch since he downloaded the billionth app, either way, if I were him, I'd sell all that stuff. But I already have most Apple stuff so the cash would be nice hehe! :D
 
What I don't understand is that he won an iPod Touch. Everybody who entered this contest would already have an iPod Touch or - even better - an iPhone. So WTH? :confused:
 
Lucky parents!

I'm sure those parents are feeling pretty proud right now.

Btw, DaBrain: your avatar made me swat my computer screen. :p
 
How is a 13 year old even able to download anything on iTunes? Don't you need a credit/debit card? Hence, the account must surely belong to parents... so they should get the goodies from Apple!
 
I think it's great that it's a 13 year old kid. I'm sure alot of older types spent hours obsessing on how to work this out and just turned out to be a contest open to all.
 
This contest did not make me download a lot of apps just trying to win the contest by a very slim chance, but rather getting me to rediscover the App Store after sort of forgetting that it was there now almost a year later. It's really amazing that the App Store has reach such many downloads in under a year, and it really makes you think of what's to come with 1000 new APIs with iPhone OS 3.0.

Kudos to the 13-y/o, lucky bastard :)

I wouldn't know what to do with the prize package, so if it would have been me, (that is - if I had entered the contest) I would just try to sell most of it off.
 
MacFly123 said:
Haha, me too. And a little 13 year old?! :rolleyes:

I'm assuming he already has an iPod Touch since he downloaded the billionth app, either way, if I were him, I'd sell all that stuff. But I already have most Apple stuff so the cash would be nice hehe! :D
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Actually, I'm going to assume he has an iPhone, since I see little reason to use Bump on an iPod Touch.
 
nickhutson said:
How is a 13 year old even able to download anything on iTunes? Don't you need a credit/debit card? Hence, the account must surely belong to parents... so they should get the goodies from Apple!
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He could do what I do: keep buying gift cards! I've never even linked my account to a credit card.
 
nickhutson said:
How is a 13 year old even able to download anything on iTunes? Don't you need a credit/debit card? Hence, the account must surely belong to parents... so they should get the goodies from Apple!
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From day one the iTunes store could be used without a credit card. You could set up an allowance based account or you could open an account via a gift card. Heck you could even open up an account during the pepsi promotion by redeeming a free song code. You just need to have a method of payment. Credit card is the most popular, but it is not the only way. The base requirement is age related.
 
I remember when iTunes had their 1 millionth music download contest, the person who won supposedly joined MR and a few bad apples started harrasing the dude with emails and phone calls and whatnot.. it was sad.

Congrats to the kid :)
 
lifeinhd said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11a Safari/525.20)

Well, I guess I'd better go collect my prize then....
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So I guess you won't be needing your current MacBook or itouch listed in your profile.

I'll take them off your hands.
 
sleeptodream said:
What I don't understand is that he won an iPod Touch. Everybody who entered this contest would already have an iPod Touch or - even better - an iPhone. So WTH? :confused:
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True, but this is a 32GB iPod touch that he won...even if he did have an iPhone, he wouldn't have had 32GB of space to mess around with.

Congrats to the kid, what a lucky guy...and I thought I was lucky having a new MacBook at 14! :rolleyes:
 
lifeinhd said:
Actually, I'm going to assume he has an iPhone, since I see little reason to use Bump on an iPod Touch.
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Haha, right sorry. I wasn't familiar with that app.

What is a 13 year old doing with an iPhone??? :rolleyes:

wackymacky said:
So I guess you won't be needing your current MacBook or itouch listed in your profile.

I'll take them off your hands.
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There is no such thing as an iTouch... iPod Touch!

Sorry, pet peeve of mine.
 
pdjudd said:
...Heck you could even open up an account during the pepsi promotion by redeeming a free song code...
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That's what I did!

TwinCities Dan said:
You can thank that so-called **** music for bringing vinyl back to a respectable level of main stream acceptance... :rolleyes:

Congrats to the winner, anybody still bitching about it has some issues... ;)
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I saw a katy perry vinyl, in best buy, the other day. I am pretty sure that's not rap or hip hop. Yet, still can be considered **** music haha
 
doubleohseven said:
True, but this is a 32GB iPod touch that he won...even if he did have an iPhone, he wouldn't have had 32GB of space to mess around with.

Congrats to the kid, what a lucky guy...and I thought I was lucky having a new MacBook at 14! :rolleyes:
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you still are.... when you learn the value of a dollar (or for that matter 1000 or more) you will appreciate it in about 4 years.

oorrr you'll be begging mommy for the new MacBook for college :D
 
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