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What do you think is going to happen when the counter hits 500,000,000?
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Apple changes their homepage. A press release is sent out. Some lucky person chooses his/hers 10 iPods. Then on Monday, we hear it all over Mac websites and in the news. MR forum members will taking about it for the next 3 days, and Apple's homepage changes again when they finally release the new iBooks.
This is a promo to celebrate the success of the iTMS and iPod. Why does anyone think this is tied to other Apple kit? I'm all for new iBooks and Mac mini's NEXT TUESDAY, but I don't think it hinges on 500,000,000 songs being purchased from the iTMS. 
Do the Math
Hi all,
I just did some rough math on the counter, and right now it is going at 500 songs/min. Now, if this is a real counter of the number of songs and not just a arbitrary countdown program, the rate should increase as it gets closer to 500,000,000; as more people will buy songs, in the hope of winning the Shiny prize. However, if the rate is fixed by the program, we can expect it to hit the mark between 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM EST on Monday. I have no idea what will happen when it reaches; for all we know, China will invade Taiwan, nuke the US and start WW3 (bit of a long shot though!).
GK
Hi all,
I just did some rough math on the counter, and right now it is going at 500 songs/min. Now, if this is a real counter of the number of songs and not just a arbitrary countdown program, the rate should increase as it gets closer to 500,000,000; as more people will buy songs, in the hope of winning the Shiny prize. However, if the rate is fixed by the program, we can expect it to hit the mark between 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM EST on Monday. I have no idea what will happen when it reaches; for all we know, China will invade Taiwan, nuke the US and start WW3 (bit of a long shot though!).
GK
The counter will stop, someone will win, and threads will explode with angry people waiting for iBook and PowerBook updates(I want them to, but I just doubt they are going to release products based on a counter that does not have any relation to hardware besides the ipod.)
Why is it that people think apple will update the ibooks when the counter hits 500,000,000 it makes no sense for them to do it like that. The countdown is the celebration of the sucess of ipods not ibooks or powerbooks, people are just latching onto the idea that new laptops will be released when it hits the big number because its the next big mac thing...
powermac666 said:This is a promo to celebrate the success of the iTMS and iPod. Why does anyone think this is tied to other Apple kit? I'm all for new iBooks and Mac mini's NEXT TUESDAY, but I don't think it hinges on 500,000,000 songs being purchased from the iTMS.
like he said
also the rate at which the counter climbs is changeing if your previous estimate of 500 per minute was correct I just checked and got 950 per minute so its geting faster fast.
I explained on a previous post how the counter system is working. Basically, it is a real counter and it does have a variable rate. And no, there won't be updates. It's a promotional giveaway...GKThursday said:
What you talkin bout Willis? The counter has gone up 200,000 in about 3 hours. Won't it be done sometime this afternoon (USA)? I'm no math major, but please correct me if I am way off.
PS- Someone should have started a thread to guess what time (EST) the counter would hit 500,000,000. My guess is Sunday, July 17 at 6:15 PM.
PS- Someone should have started a thread to guess what time (EST) the counter would hit 500,000,000. My guess is Sunday, July 17 at 6:15 PM.
well i would think apple possible could go out and release the itunes phone in correlation with the success of itunes. Am I the only one thinking this may happen?
AP_piano295 said:
I don't know about everyone else, but I don't think iBook/PB and macmini updates WILL happen, 1/100,000 odds. BUT it would be nice. A guy can dream. And like I said, most likely it will be just an iPod/iTunes thing. But I do think it will be more than just giving away some pods.