Apple anxiously awaits the selling of their billionth App download celebration
By Laura June 
posted Apr 10th 2009 12:22PM
posted Apr 10th 2009 12:22PM
Apple's going all out in anticipation of a landmark for the company -- the downloading of one billion apps in the App store. Not bad for nine months of work, if you think about it: over 110 million a month, in fact. About 27 million a week... well, you get the idea. Oh yeah, they're giving away a bunch of stuff too, so be sure to check that out if the mood strikes you.
Some of these are mine!!!11 =D
How long will it take the Ovi store to reach 1 billion downloads? 25 years? That's if Nokia are still around in 25 years...
eugh whenever I try and submit an entry for the competition I get this
http://tinyurl.com/d2fp7r
Dyranios, I get the same thing when I try the alternative application. I just went to the iTunes store via link, and got a free app instead. But still, odd that the alternative application didn't work.
Hey, so if I win this, can I get that arm I used to pay for that MacBook pro?
I keed I keed.
I'd never buy a MBP.
@ Dyranios:
Same here. From two different machines.
sigh.
App Store Breakdown (currently 33,446 apps)
6,660 Games
4,590 Entertainment
3,623 Books
2,732 Utilities
2,252 Education
1,833 Lifestyle
1,671 Travel
1,398 Reference
1,255 Sports
1,183 Productivity
1,013 Music
866 Healthcare & Fitness
843 Navigation
738 Business
628 Photography
621 Finance
522 Social Networking
453 News
363 Medical
170 Weather
4 SGN
1 FingerTap
1 Gol Mobile
1 Sonos, Inc
1 GamesResort LLC
FYI: There are about 37 Fart Apps in various categories and 22 Flashlight apps in various categories.
Is that all P.A.C. Man ever posts?
Weirdest troll ever.
P.A.C Man = Pathetic Analysis & Calculations Man.
@P.A.C Man
Irrelevant troll is irrelevant.
@ P.A.C.
yes we know you've already posted the exact same list at least 17 times. And we still don't care, Apple fans seem content defending the parts of their platform that are widely thought of to be good while ignoring the majority of criticism leveled at Apples obsessive control over their software/hardware locking users into a needless and expensive upgrade cycle.
I had just about all the apps listed in the contest, except for Labyrinth Lite (I have the full version, LOL) and BubbleWrap, so I guess I have little to no chance of winning this contest, but my question is: the contest states that you'll get a chance to win a 10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Do you get all of those? Or just one of them?
You probably get all of them when the millionth song was sold on iTunes or something where was no promotion like this they just rewarded the person who sold it with a buttload of stuff such as the above.
Wait, so they're not choosing people randomly, just whoever buys the billionth app? Crap, I definitely ain't winning if that's the case.
Boy, this prize is worth almost $13,400, depending of course on whether they're giving out the high end MacBook Pro and iPod Touch. Still, even if you juggle around the numbers, it's still close to $13,000 in free swag.
Why am I not eligible for the 'lucky draw'? You're selling your iPhone here in Hong Kong too, Apple...
Yeah, not only that, but the contest kind of punishes the people who have been buying all the apps from the beginning. Of course, I doubt that many people have all the apps I have, but I would say that at least 60 percent of iPhone/iPod touch owners have at least 80 percent of these apps.
Unless you're cheapskate. The cheapskates have all the free apps and maybe 3-5 of the paid games and usually only the .99 cent variety, like say Moto Chaser or Flick Fishing.
Oops, I was replying to Gus.
nah that was just an example so show its usually the one winner who gets all the swag by the looks of it, this will be a draw when the billionth is sold
@ILoveApple: How long will it take you to realize your stupidity for loving a corporation that just wants you for your money, 25 years? Never.
PAC man = Paul A Chapel, Apple uber douche.
While i recognize that there are some good apps on the Apple app store, I just came to the realization that what my professor on communication said a few years ago. He said you can sell shit and if it looks pretty people will buy it. By the huge amount of useless apps that Apple apps store has it amazes me how gullible people are.
Every time I see that stupid list it reminds me of how much duplication and worthless applications there are.
ONLY a billion downloads. That's why everyone is going to throw away their iPhones and iPod Touchs just to get their hands on a Pre because it has a keyboard and background processing. I don't think so.
This is after all those early bitching developers said that the Apple SDK is too restrictive and they were going to go to Android or WinMo. I hope those crybaby devs are sitting and writing for those platforms right now while missing out on the most exciting developer platform that hasn't been seen for a long time. Between the Android and WinMo platform, a developer might be able to make a grand sum of $5000 because the people that use those platforms don't like to spend money on anything.
By next year this time it'll be 3 billion downloads and the Pre may well be just a fading memory in some Palm lover's bottom drawer.
I wonder how many of that 1,000,000,000 will be of that sick "Baby Shaker" app?
Top 20 apps are likely fart related.
@ Lando
"Top 20 apps are likely fart related."
Wrong. Just ONE in the top 40 apps.
Top 20 Paid Apps:
Crash Bandicoot, Koi Pond, Enigmo, Bejeweled 2, iBeer, Moro Chaser, Pocket Guitar, Flick Fishing, Tertis, Texas Hold em, Super Monkey Ball, Pocket God, CroMag Rally, Ocarina, Fieldrunners, ifart, Touchgrind, iHunt, iShoot and Monopoly
Top 20 Free Apps
Facebook, Google Earth, Pandora, Tap tap revenge, Shazam, Packman Ligt, Backgrounds, Touch Hockey, Labyrinth, Flashlight, Urban Spoon, Movvies, iBowl, Light Saber Unleashed, Sol Free Solitaire, MySpace Mobile, Virtual Zippo, Weather Channel, Bubble Wrap and Remote.
@RattyUK
(see:joke)
Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler!
Hey, if Lando says so, so it must be.
@DirtyVegas
Damn straight.
I'm very surprised that Rolando didn't make it in the top 40 apps. It's probably the best designed and most innovative app to come to the App Store. Rolando is the kind of game that could only happen on the iPhone or iPod touch.
"Facebook, Google Earth, Pandora, Tap tap revenge, Shazam, Packman Ligt, Backgrounds, Touch Hockey, Labyrinth, Flashlight, Urban Spoon, Movvies, iBowl, Light Saber Unleashed, Sol Free Solitaire, MySpace Mobile, Virtual Zippo, Weather Channel, Bubble Wrap and Remote"
What, no Shozu?
Weird!
The fact that there is even one in the top 40 is sad.
So does this mean that when the time comes close we can just download like 500 free apps and we'll have a better chance of winning? :D
Yeah, it looks that way. If I am reading the rules correctly, then after 999,999,999 downloads, the prize gets awarded to the next entry (either someone downloading the 1,000,000,000th app OR someone sending in the no-purchase-necessary form.)
No. The promotion is as follows. Any entries (download of apps) received between 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 10, 2009 and the one billionth download is equally capable of winning a prize. It doesn't matter if you are the billionth download or not. So if you download one app, you have one chance at winning a prize. If you download 1000 apps, you have 1000 chances of winning a prize. It doesn't matter when you download an app. Each download has an equal chance of winning a prize.
And the prizes are separate. One person wins a 17" Macbook Pro. Another person wins the iPod Touch (32GB), third will win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Certificate, and a fourth person will win an Apple Time Capsule. They're all separate prizes.
300 of them are mine
Why, that's 4-5 apps a second! Good show, Apple.
actually over 44 apps a second...
2.7e6/7/24/60/60=4.46
why obsessed with all the math? chillax man
except for the fact it's 27 million a week and not 2.7... 1,000,000,000/9 = 111,111,111/4 = 27,777,777/7 = 3,968,254/24 = 165344/60 = 2756/60 = 45.9 a second
your welcome for the math lesson
Thanks Engadget for the mis-information.
Looks like they corrected it.
godayum I hate Maths
@ bassist18:
"your welcome"?
Good thing YOU'RE good at math. English doesn't seem to be YOUR strong suit.
He said "Your welcome" because he deserved a thanks, English doesn't seem to be YOUR strong suit
its a contraction of YOU ARE.
therefore you're.
and yes, you're welcome.
What's the average price for an app? That's some serious moolah.
Most apps are free. Say 10% are paid, and a $1. They get 30% of revenue, that's about 30 million. Subtract advertising, hosting, bandwidth, web design, and other overhead, probably 20 million or so in net revenue. The app store is not really a revenue source. It's like the iTunes music store: a very convincing means to sell hardware.
theres no doubt that the great majority of these are free apps (which makes the term "selling" kind of dubious). the app store makes it very easy to find and download a bunch of free apps, try them out, and delete them, whereas with WinMo you have to go search the internet. the "marketplace" for WinMo should help that a lot.
Time to download a free app every hour until they break 1 billion... in the hopes of winning some kind of prize :)
It probably will be serious moolah, especially when the Premium App Store comes on-line.
quoted as of February 2009:
Analysts expect Apple's App Store to generate more than $800m (£556m) in its first year. Since the service was launched last July more than 500m applications, from games to interactive travel guides, have been downloaded.
Tony Cripps, principal analyst at mobile phone consultancy Ovum, said: "Every man and his dog wants an apps store. Apple's has been such a phenomenal success that all the other players are desperately trying to play catch-up as traditional revenues fall."
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So you see, every other handset manufacturer wouldn't be opening up their own app stores just to break even. I'm sure there's money to be made above just driving hardware sales. And the rest of those copycats have to start from scratch, while Apple doesn't have to do a damn thing except sit back and collect the green.
1 billion get
Not "selling" .......it's downloaded. not all apps costed $$
They won't "sell" their billionth app for a very, very long time... if ever.
Actually in economic terms, they have a price of 0$, so in fact they were sold.
"The winner agrees to allow Sponsor to use his or her name, photograph, likeness, voice, prize information, and biographical information for publicity and promotional purposes without further compensation where permitted by law."
hmm.....
@Kamil
Jeez. Gotta find something to bitch about Apple, right? You realize this is STANDARD legal mumbo-jumbo for promotions by virtually every single company?
Give me a break... McDonalds does that for monopoly. If the people in the new Microsoft ads aren't really actors, they had to sign something similar. Nearly any contest or giveaway includes that.
Go dig a hole and die in it.
I say everyone stop downloading apps for the next month and milk this party out!
YEaah! Right on!
haha exactly what i was thinking! alright. now, a way to get everybody's attention....
I like how I can enter 25 times a day, and the rules say that I'm free to do so with the no purchase necessary online form.
But on my second entry using said form, it tells me that I have entered too many times already today.
They should be including an AppleTV with the prizes. Considering the time and money needed to accumulate a worthy (legal) digital media collection, the $10k iTunes card is a great way to start building one. That's the biggest drawback to getting an AppleTV.
Let's hope whoever wins that iTunes card doesn't have Time Warner internet service lol
Feverishly starts downloading flatulence apps...
Cool. I suggest you get this new arcade puzzle game Robotco :) and enter the lottery.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ufLZdyLQSVY
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310704581&mt=8
wow, a $10,000 itunes gift card as one of the prizes.10,000 songs.
Not if the songs are in the charts!
I'd rather buy a lottery ticket.I think my odds are better.
Staggering numbers indeed. This milestone further solidifies the success of the App store from Apple. It's no wonder that companies like Microsoft, the biggest "me too" of them all, are all launching their version of the app store. Unlike Apple, these copy cats with their app store, is a mere shadow of Apples own excellent execution of this service.
Um, the Sidekick III I had back in high school had a full app store...
So did Palm. What is your point? It's nothing like Apple App store, that all these copy cats are furiously working on. If your point is that Apple App store is nothing new or special, why don't you show us a link of that app store your comparing it too.
Better yet, show us the app store with images and description, so that we can all see that the app store your comparing it to is just like the Apple App store.
Im not comparing the sidekick app store with the iphones; it's obvious the iphones is superior...Im just saying that dont call companies like MS and RIM copy cats when it very clearly isn't a new idea.
"Im just saying that dont call companies like MS and RIM copy cats when it very clearly isn't a new idea."
Yes it is a new idea. A re-invention. What Apple created as an App store is a new idea. This is the problem with Windows users. Oversimplification applied to everything observed by these users. A grocery store is just like an App store. Amazon is just like the App store and so on and so on.....
Please, do tell what is new about the app store that we haven't ever seen before?
Typical. First you need to prove your point since you questioned the validity of my post. . Second do some work yourself. A quick look at the Apple site or podcast will show you how the App store works. You don't learn by being spoonfed information. Learn to look it up yourself.
I've played with my friends ipod touch many, many times, and I still don't see where the innovation is, the only the the app store has is sheer amount of apps.
OMG! Now that's hilarious.
Typical Jubei. Trying to claim an old idea a new one because Apple has had success with it. Apple has not innovated a single thing since the first iPod, which was really the only thing they had going for them, as they were at rock bottom at the time. They helped make MP3 players more main stream, and since they were around at such an early age for MP3 players, they have exploited that to get the following they have now. Their application store is simply a side effect. Anything they do with the environment is going to be a "huge success" with "staggering numbers"- not because it's better than everything else, or necessarily implemented better, but because of the shear number of people that have access to it, and it being the only place for apps (aside from Jail breaking, because there are tons of apps out there that shouldn't cost shit).
Jubei, you really need to stop blinding yourself with Steve Job's cum, and, you know, grow a brain of your own. Then maybe you'll be able to make your own choices. Apparently your entire life is devoted to praising Apple products and nothing else.
It's unfortunate that Zune God cannot debate without using profanity and sexual innuendos towards me. The continued use of such sexual suggestions towards me is perhaps flattering to some, but as a heterosexual, your suggestive flirting to me has will go unheeded. Perhaps you should take that unfulfilled need and focus that drive to learning more about what true innovation is all about.
http://www.folklore.org
Jubei, you continue to prove that you're merely Steve Job's little bitch (one of his many). You obviously can't think for yourself, and when someone (typically myself) stumps you, you simply ignore the argument at hand and try to slander the other person (and then advertise that folklore site, which I have looked through, and is nothing but a bunch of fud).
If you're going to make such big claims, Jubei, be prepared to back them up. So far, you have not. It's apparent I've destroyed you, so you can go back into hiding now- until the next Zune post or GM post on Autoblog (as if you know anything about the automotive world you little loser- we know you feel incomplete driving your Prius).
Microsoft didn't even bother to do any research. WinMo people hate downloading from mainstream stores. They consider themselves free spirits. They're too sophisticated to tie themselves to one store. When the App Store first opened, they said only pussies would use some store like that when thousands of WinMo apps are all over the internet to choose from. If Microsoft had just done a survey, it wouldn't be wasting time and money on a service that very few WinMo users will ever use. You gotta figure, where the hell were they getting all their mobile apps before. Not from MS, that's for sure.
iPhone users are pretty much locked to iTMS. Most users wouldn't have it any other way since it's so convenient. Apple has seen to that. WinMo users have no loyalty when it comes to spending money. They go wherever something's the cheapest. Nothing can force WinMo users download from Microsoft's App Store. If WinMo users download a million apps in a year from MS, it will probably be something for them to celebrate.
What's you favorite app? Mine is AroundMe - great for traveling.
-www.thekitchensinkandmore.blogspot.com
how many more comments till the apple fan boiz and apple haters start having a fight!!!! COME ONNN YOU NERDS!!!!! WE NEED SOME ACTION!
Why are you egging some sort of flamewarto start?
If you hate those types of comments they dont launch in fanboy language.
Post #2 (low ranked) was begging for one. Jubei is trying to start another as well.
So make up your mind as to how much you want to have this break down in chaos. Because way too many people on both sides are all to happy to oblige.
All they are doing is waiting for one of you to press START.
Its going to happen sooner or later, its inevitable. Besides, isnt it fun to watch tech/nerds fight it out on the internet? i've got nothing better to do than sit here and read Engadget comments all day.
presses 'START'.
/Sigh
Why don't you watch some porn or something and piss off?
i couldn't agree more - but be prepared to get verbally beaten mercilessly by apple-hating tech nerds in 5...4..3...2....
Wow! sounds great! one question, is it free to download an app? I wanted to give it a try. I wanted so much the ipod touch and the mac book, it is so expensive here in the Philippines.
Why is the tens digit flipping down, instead of the ones digit? This must meant that Apple is cheating by counting ten sales for every one actual sale.
Maybe they're selling in the 10s every second and not the ones?
how many more comments till the apple fan boiz and apple haters start having a fight!!!! COME ONNN YOU NERDS!!!!! WE NEED SOME ACTION!
Fuck off.
LAUGHING OUT LOUD! someones getting pissy
Umm... why is Apple giving away an iPod Touch in a contest where the main method of entry almost states that you already own an iPhone or iPod Touch?
Admittedly, they do have that whole "enter without purchase" thing that I JUST saw...
Humorously, though, that "entry without purchase" thing only lets you enter once, when the thing says "Limit 25 Entries Per Day".
Maybe for those of us who want a G2 iPod Touch and only have a G1? Also, if it's a 32gb, I wouldn't complain.
I can't tell if this contest is whoever the billionth person happens to be, wins? Or they are going to pick a RANDOM person from like the 50,000,000 people who have downloaded apps?
none of those are mine and never will be