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iPod Billion countdown

rye9

rye9

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About how many songs are downloaded in 24 hours? Do u think someone will win the billion countdown overnight?
 
I think you're being a bit optimistic... it hasn't even reached 996M yet.

I predict it'll occur sometime late tomorrow (Wednesday evening) US time.
 
eeesh.... it's late and my brain turned off. For some reason, my brain read 999,654,000 when I glanced at it before answering rather than 995,654,000 😱
 
maybe I should buy a song, at least give myself a chance.

Doctor Q said:
For a good estimate of the REAL current count, keep a watch here.
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Hey, nice find, thanks for the link. There was a lot of interesting information on that page.
 
Wait till there are only 5,000 songs left. Then buy 10,000 songs. You win a 10,000 iTunes gift card. Sell it on Ebay. You still get 10 iPods and an iMac!
Good deal.
 
Is an album a single transaction or 10, 12, 15 whatever individual songs? I know it's charged as a single item, how is it viewed by the counter and therefore the competition?
 
looks like someones gonna win overnight... or in the early morning... i doubt it'll last until 3:00 PM EST, ill be in school all day🙁
 
Ehh... from lookin at the counter, i think the winner will win around 2 AM EST.
 
AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
I say 1:07 AM EST

...shrug 🙄
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It's speeding up. I'm guessing 12:50AM EST at current speeds, but due to excitement-spurred buying, I think it'll hit ~12:31:06AM.
 
jsw said:
It's speeding up. I'm guessing 12:50AM EST at current speeds, but due to excitement-spurred buying, I think it'll hit ~12:31:06AM.
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We're almost there! You had a really good guesstimate! We'll be there in just a few minutes.
-Chasen
 
clayj said:
After you click "Buy Song", do you have to do anything else to complete the sale?
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No. Just make sure you're at the buying point - if you've got it set up to use a shopping cart, you need to be in the cart to buy the songs. Otherwise, it's just one click and you're done.
 
jsw said:
No. Just make sure you're at the buying point - if you've got it set up to use a shopping cart, you need to be in the cart to buy the songs. Otherwise, it's just one click and you're done.
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All set and ready!
 
I'm assuming that, if you're buying an album or collection or added 1000 songs to your cart, what counts is when you click, so you're better off buying a bunch of songs in succession than one big order. Would you all agree?

Of course, also, there's that 1:1,000,000 shot you'll actually click anything at all during the second the billionth song is purchased to even have a shot at winning.

Still, it's fun!
 
Well, there you go, the actual count just hit 1 billion - with Apple's lagging counter soon to follow. It will be interesting to see who wins the big prize, and what song was downloaded. 😎

 
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