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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

If only you could add a bunch of songs to a shopping cart then buy them all at once.[/QUOTE]


Thats what I am doing.
 
while you're at it...

while you programming gurus are at it, can you give me a hand picking some numbers for this?
http://www.galottery.com/

it's up to $290M, so if you give me the correct numbers, i'll be more than happy to split it. ;)

and if i win the lottery, i'll buy the remaining songs to get to 100M on iTMS, just so i can have my smiling, obscenely rich mug on apple.com and so i can make my celebrity playlist (which would have to be $ongs themed w/ money).
 
COUNTER PROGRAMS!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone!

I have created a VERY simple application that will count how many songs have been downloaded from the iTMS. It will not keep track of past counts. This is just to save you from refreshing Apple.com every 3 minutes. :D

Also, this doesn't work if you're behind serious firewalls.

Preliminary tests show that the number changes every 2 or 3 minutes, which means that the "Update" button won't be too useful. ;)

Get it here: (Windows and Mac OS X in the same archive)
http://mrtoast.spymac.net/iTMS.zip

Thanks to Seth Willits for compiling. Visit his site! http://www.freaksw.com Buy his software! :cool:

Enjoy! (Feel free to mirror the archive)

MrToast
 
i don't have a credit card. too bad itunes music store doesn't accept bank transfer. which student has a credit card?
 
m.r.m. said:
i don't have a credit card. too bad itunes music store doesn't accept bank transfer. which student has a credit card?
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Umm.. pretty much every student with a U.S. mailing address if the numbers the credit card companies tout (and then complain about re: defaulting) are to be believed.
 
Looks like the avg. rate is around 4,000+- songs every 5 mins.

The lowest being around 3,000 songs every 5 mins.

The highest being around 5,000 songs every 5 mins.

Just bought 2 songs.

94,628,050 so far.
 
I noticed this promotion on macrumors, so I went ahead and starting buying, I bought 5 songs before I started reading the forums to realize there was a counter on apple.com. LOL
 
alandail said:
you can buy yourself iTunes gift cards.
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I personally find this to be the best way anyhow... It helps me curb my iTMS spending (which isn't a whole lot) by forcing me to go make a special trip to a store that carries the cards. That way, I'll use the Gift Card $ instead of directly from my account.
 
Does anyone know how they are counting the song downloads. What I mean is, if you purchase an album I would assume each song is counted individually, but are they all together or as they download?
 
Thanks Toast...cool little 'widget'

MrToast said:
Hi Everyone!

I have created a VERY simple application that will count how many songs have been downloaded from the iTMS. It will not keep track of past counts. This is just to save you from refreshing Apple.com every 3 minutes. :D

Also, this doesn't work if you're behind serious firewalls.

Preliminary tests show that the number changes every 2 or 3 minutes, which means that the "Update" button won't be too useful. ;)

Get it here: (Windows and Mac OS X in the same archive)
http://mrtoast.spymac.net/iTMS.zip

Thanks to Seth Willits for compiling. Visit his site! http://www.freaksw.com Buy his software! :cool:

Enjoy! (Feel free to mirror the archive)

MrToast
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degrush said:
I wonder if anyone will take a chance and just buy songs like crazy, say 1000 of them, in hopes of getting the $14,000 prize. If only you could add a bunch of songs to a shopping cart then buy them all at once.
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Yeah, that would be super-smart.

I have another tip for you - buy 1,000 Big Game lottery tickets! That way you have 1000 chances to win the $200 million jackpot. Sound investment.
 
iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

What an unbelievably tight @rsed promotion! I think I'd celebrate $100m of revenue a damned sight more generously than a handful of iPods and um er
a laptop.
Is Apple getting too greedy for it's own good?
 
Here's my guess:

The "special" 20 gb ipds are the next generation ipods. My guess is that once they reach the 100 million mark they will announce new storage capacities (20,40,60) and maybe some new mini ipod storage capacities, too.
 
Dom Martin said:
What an unbelievably tight @rsed promotion! I think I'd celebrate $100m of revenue a damned sight more generously than a handful of iPods and um er
a laptop.
Is Apple getting too greedy for it's own good?
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Some folks will b*tch about anything. :rolleyes:

--Cless
 
Dom Martin said:
What an unbelievably tight @rsed promotion! I think I'd celebrate $100m of revenue a damned sight more generously than a handful of iPods and um er
a laptop.
Is Apple getting too greedy for it's own good?
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Do remember that it's $100m in "revenue", not profit. They are giving away $32,800 dollars in prizes. That's quite a significant chunk of profits, if you ask me.
 
MrToast said:
Hi Everyone!

I have created a VERY simple application that will count how many songs have been downloaded from the iTMS. It will not keep track of past counts. This is just to save you from refreshing Apple.com every 3 minutes. :D

Also, this doesn't work if you're behind serious firewalls.

Preliminary tests show that the number changes every 2 or 3 minutes, which means that the "Update" button won't be too useful. ;)

Get it here: (Windows and Mac OS X in the same archive)
http://mrtoast.spymac.net/iTMS.zip

Thanks to Seth Willits for compiling. Visit his site! http://www.freaksw.com Buy his software! :cool:

Enjoy! (Feel free to mirror the archive)

MrToast
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Hi mr. Toast,
I'm impressed by the speed in producing the app, but I can't get it to work.
If I click on iTMS counter, i get an excel file full of gibberish?
Am I missing something? (I'm on 10.2.8)
 
No purchase necessary but it will cost you.

To have a "free" chance you need:

74 cents (for two stamps)
Two envelopes
and time.

And for all that, you get no songs.
 
Don't panic said:
Hi mr. Toast,
I'm impressed by the speed in producing the app, but I can't get it to work.
If I click on iTMS counter, i get an excel file full of gibberish?
Am I missing something? (I'm on 10.2.8)
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Ah, I believe you need Panther. It's in how Panther creates archives of files. You can select multiple files, right click, and choose "create archive". That's what I (actually Seth, who compiled them) did.

Perhaps you may have noticed a "_MACOSX" folder that was created when you unzipped it. This folder contains the resource forks of the files, and is only correctly intrepreted by Panther.

Sorry, I didn't think to mention that.

BTW, the apps were created with REALbasic.

MrToast
 
MrToast said:
Ah, I believe you need Panther. It's in how Panther creates archives of files. You can select multiple files, right click, and choose "create archive". That's what I (actually Seth, who compiled them) did.

Perhaps you may have noticed a "_MACOSX" folder that was created when you unzipped it. This folder contains the resource forks of the files, and is only correctly intrepreted by Panther.

Sorry, I didn't think to mention that.

BTW, the apps were created with REALbasic.

MrToast
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thanks,
I do have another machine with panther on, i'll check it there ;)
 
Dom Martin said:
What an unbelievably tight @rsed promotion! I think I'd celebrate $100m of revenue a damned sight more generously than a handful of iPods and um er
a laptop.
Is Apple getting too greedy for it's own good?
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A lot of people complained about this when the iTMS first was launched. I think that Apple announced that they only make about $0.20 off each song.

The whole point of the iTMS is to sell iPods. As a side note, it's worth noting that the creator code for iTunes is "hook". :eek:

MrToast
 
Dom Martin said:
What an unbelievably tight @rsed promotion! I think I'd celebrate $100m of revenue a damned sight more generously than a handful of iPods and um er
a laptop.
Is Apple getting too greedy for it's own good?
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OMG you can't be serious...friggin whiners everywhere!
 
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