Apple as of late increased its promoting for the upcoming milestone of 50 billion downloads from the App retailer, an event the corporate is marking with a contest wherein the person who downloads the 50 billionth app will receives a $10,000 iTunes retailer present card while the following 50 downloaders will receive $500 present cards each and every.
The milestone is now being promoted as the main characteristic on Apple’s entrance page, with an animated counter being accompanied via a rotating collection of iPad mini app photographs with associated information to put the “50 billion” number in standpoint:
– “With 50 billion steps, it’s worthwhile to walk across the earth more than 800 times.” [sunlight walk]
– “With 50 billion bricks, you could construct 12 great partitions of China.” [ProCamera HD]
– “Counting to 50 billion would take you 1600 years.” [Intro to Math, by means of Montessorium]
Apple introduced the contest one week ago, and the counter stood at rather over forty nine.2 billion downloads on the time. With the counter now registering somewhat over forty nine.6 billion downloads, it should take just below any other week to achieve the milestone.
(Thanks, Ben!)
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