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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

a little sweepstake...

Now the downloads are hotting up again, and most of you will be watching the clocks ticking....

It's now 2:55pm UK time. Current estimates put it at about 5:15pm. But as we know it'll speed up as prime time starts.

So I'm going to predict 4:07pm

Over to you, and no sneaky back editing

Nearest one to the time, posts to be made in the next half-hour, gets a free tune from me, no purchase required, obviously
 
I'll go for the hat trick at 4:44 UK. that's 11:44 where I am, seems a bit soon. But, I'll take it

4:44
 
we've got about 34000 songs to go to the first 100,000 mark, with about 400 songs a minute that's about 1,5 hour from now. my guess = 17:50 europe time
 
you're looking good with the hat-trick

fracai said:
I'll go for the hat trick at 4:44 UK. that's 11:44 where I am, seems a bit soon. But, I'll take it

4:44
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Certainly no later
 
My prediction: 11:32 CDT

and did you read this?
From apple's official rules: "6)...Each entrant is only eligible to win only one 20GB iPod and/or the grand prize."

So, pretty much, I'm gonna wait until the end to buy anything else. I don't want to win just one measly iPod when I could WIN IT ALL!!!!! MWHAAAAAHHAAAAHAHAA!!!!

Ok, seriously, I will wait to try and hit the 100,000,000 - nothing sooner.
 
Here comes the 1st winner

1st winner should be selected in the next few minutes. Current count = 95,090,625.

An interesting proposal would be to try to determine whether it would be more advantageous to try to time a win 50 times with one song each, or one time with 50 songs at once. It would seem initially that the second method (all at once) would give a greater chance of winning, but it would actually also seem to depend on the accuracy with which you could time your entry. (Which, as has been stated, is probably fairly low.)

If you were guaranteed your entries would be simultaneous/sequential (i.e., you buy 50 songs, you get entries 90,000,000 through 90,000,049) it'd almost be possible (depending on accuracy) to stack the deck and make money on the deal. The grand prize is a 17" powerbook, 10,000 itunes, and a 40g ipod, which would be what, around $13,000? So, if the order rate stayed the same (which it won't), and the counter on apple's website was in real-time, you'd be able to time your purchase to whenever the count was within 2,000 (since the counter goes up by about 2,000 with each update.) So, buy ~2500 songs at 99,998,000 and you're the grand prize winner. Of course, this won't work because EVERYONE will be trying to time it. But fun to think about.

--D
 
Heh--server traffic must've just shot through the stratosphere; trying to make my purchase now and of course the rest of you are all doing the same thing at the same time...

Result? Spinning barber-shop pole city...
 
Wow, somebody in the marketing department is getting a huge raise for thinking of this promotion. They're going to reach 100mil in no time!
 
I bought an album of sound effects.. 54 tracks for 9.99. I think I waited too long though. It was only 4 songs in when it updated. blast!!
 
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