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App Store delivers a billion downloads

Written by Rich Fiscus @ 24 Apr 2009 10:58 User comments (6)

App Store delivers a billion downloads The one billionth iPhone app was downloaded from Apple's iTunes App Store yesterday. Apple will be giving Connor Mulcahey, who downloaded the app, a MacBook Pro, 32GB iPod Touch, a $10,000 iTunes gift card, and a Time Capsule WiFi hard drive.
Along with the announcement, Apple compiled lists of the most popular commercial and free apps over the first few months of the App Store's existence.

The list of 20 All-Time Top Paid Apps include 11 $0.99 apps. Others on the list range from $1.99 to $5.99.

The All-Time Top Free Apps list features seven which are interfaces to third party online services, six which are social networking oriented, five games, and three limited versions of commercial apps.

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6 user comments

124.4.2009 14:23

What a lucky guy.

224.4.2009 17:29

What is a Time Capsule WiFi hard drive???

324.4.2009 19:08

Originally posted by cart0181:
What is a Time Capsule WiFi hard drive???
I'm not entirely sure but I believe it is a Wi-Fi hard drive that is you can conduct time-based backups directly to with a program on OS X.

425.4.2009 04:26

Say what?!

525.4.2009 08:51

Quote:
What is a Time Capsule WiFi hard drive???
No it's something you get to put all your music on that you purchased with the $10,000 iTunes cards and THEN in 20 years you get to open up the files and play them.

630.4.2009 13:18

It was probably the Baby Shaker app...

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