They probably have a 10 second delay.
I'll be happy enough even if it's the 500 dollar one hopefully
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Apple's App Store Reaches 50 Billion Downloads, Now on Pace for 20 Billion Apps Per Year
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I'll be happy enough even if it's the 500 dollar one hopefully
Well first I would buy all the Apple Pro software Final Cut Pro, Logic, etc.
After that the choices get a little more boring and difficult.
If I won, either the 10,000 or 500 dollar one, I'd be getting OS X 10.9 for free
I went with Hike and their promise of $100,000 worth of Apple products..
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/hike-adds-100000-sidebet-to-apples-50-billionth-app-contest
Worth a try. Though I know I have a snowballs chance in hell of winning!
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/hike-adds-100000-sidebet-to-apples-50-billionth-app-contest
Worth a try. Though I know I have a snowballs chance in hell of winning!
I caought it on 50 billion hahahah
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You life is now complete.
What is someone really gonna do with a $10,000 gift card to the app stores? Buy Angry Birds for 5.000 of their closest friends?
I was wondering the same thing. It would be like getting a $10,000 gift certificate to Baskin-Robbins. How much ice cream can a person eat? I already own Logic and Aperture. I'd buy Final Cut Pro, which I'd take full advantage of by editing the short iPhone videos I take of my dog and cat doing cute things; iMove just isn't powerful enough.
I have more iPad and iPhone apps than will fit on my devices. I got most of them during free promotions, and I don't use most of them. I'm fifty-something, and I've been collecting music for decades, so there aren't many albums I want that I don't already have. Why didn't Apple let the winner apply that $10K toward Apple hardware, as well? That would have been a great first prize.But I didn't win, so what am I complaining about?
What is someone really gonna do with a $10,000 gift card to the app stores? Buy Angry Birds for 5.000 of their closest friends?
Sell it on eBay for $5000. I'm sure someone would jump all over it!!
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What on earth would I do with 10,000 bucks to use on the Mac App Store or regular App Store? Maybe some mac hardware instead........
Forgot this was on. I bought Pages, House of the Dead, and Virtua Tennis tonight ... over an hour ago now though, maybe more, so I was probably too early.
They still announce & celebrate their computer sales numbers, despite the fact that the Windows install base eclipses the OSX install base... I feel like you're struggling to create some conflict that does not, in fact exist.
It's still amazing though that Apple gets 74% of the total profits for all the app downloads between all the different app stores.
Apps for your computer, apps for your ipad, apps for your iphone, music, films, shows, books, subscription services (Netflix, Spotify) or instead spend all the money on in-app purchasing poker game
Any idea why the 50,000,000,000 was different for each country?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwuB-ZZOB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwuB-ZZOB8
I was.
Good luck everyone!
I was just about to download some apps this morning but I didn't and I'm crying over it. Mostly because I forgot about the contest. Oh well, I never win these things.
I'd rather have a new MBP as a prize but I guess I could've lived with app bucks.
Google: 48,000,000,000 downloads
$48.00 distributed to developers
OMG 48 phandroids actually bought 99 cents apps on sale
/s
At one point, I was watching the countdown number. I was also getting a few free apps... I saw it roll over 100,000 apps in one move.
it went from something like:
49,945,42x,xxx to
49,945,5xx,xxx
After witnessing that, I felt that a fix was on.
Good news for the "winner". *rolls eyes*
it went from something like:
49,945,42x,xxx to
49,945,5xx,xxx
After witnessing that, I felt that a fix was on.
Good news for the "winner". *rolls eyes*
Well of course it's fixed. Apple really gives a ***t who wins. Really important to them.
Or possibly not...
Any idea why the 50,000,000,000 was different for each country?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwuB-ZZOB8
I think I remember that one or two people in this forum had slight problems with understanding the counter as well.
The number was just a general graphical display of the numbers without the purpose of showing the actual value in real time. Apple stated in their rules "Any download counter displayed by Sponsor is for illustrative purposes only. The potential winners will be determined by the order of the entries received."
Talking about "scam" is pretty strange, imho.