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App Store Billion Downloads Contest Ends

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 PM - by Bryan Chaffin

Billion Download CounterApple has reached a billion downloads on its App Store, just nine months after launching the iPhone and iPod touch application download service. The company's Billion App Countdown contest is officially over, though the winner has not yet been announced.

The company has posted a note on the contest's promotional page at Apple.com, and the counter in iTunes now reads 1,000,000,000.

Stay tuned for information about the winner once Apple makes the announcement.

Screenshot from Apple's promo page
From Apple's promotional page at Apple.com.

4 comments from the community.

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Michael A. said:

April 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 PM

Ahem, you mean “the counter in iTunes now reads 1,000,000,000,” not “1,000,000.”

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Bryan Chaffin said:

April 23rd, 2009 at 4:52 PM

So I did!  Thanks, Michael.  The article has been corrected accordingly. smile

Bryan
Editor
iPO

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Bosco said:

April 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 PM

A real shame the winner didn’t manage to download the Baby Shaker app. That would have been frakking ripe.

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Sir Harry Flashman said:

April 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 PM

I downloaded a several apps over the last few hours, one shortly before they announced the goal. With a lot of luck I may be the winner.

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