Apple edging ever closer to 1 Billion Apps download achievement.

April 12, 2009
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Apple giving all sorts of amazing prizes away such as New Macbook

Apple giving all sorts of amazing prizes away such as New Macbook

Apple are now within 60 million Aps away from making history by 1 Billion Applications being downloaded by Apple users in the App Store. The current figures can be found at the Apple Countdown Page.

To make it even more interesting for users, Apple are entering every App Download user the chance to win big prizes!

“As of today, nearly one billion apps have been downloaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks — a billion. Download an app and you’ll automatically get the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Just go to the iTunes Store, browse the App Store, and download your best app yet.”

To make Itunes celebration more apparent, they featured the top 20 Free and Paid Aps perhaps to attract more downloads.

Current All Time Top Paid Apps

1. Crash Bandicoot.

2. Moto Chaser.

3. Virtual Pool.

4. Cro-Mag Rally.

5. Flick Fishing.

6. Koi Pond.

7. Monopoly.

8. Super Monkey Ball.

9. PocketGuitar.

10. iCopter.

11. Pocket God.

12. London Tube.

13. Bejeweled 2

14. Texas Hold’em.

15. Real Football 2009.

16. Blocked

17. Field Runners.

18. Tetris.

19. iShoot.

20. iFart.

Current All-Time Top Free Apps

1. Facebook.

2. iPint.

3. Google Earth.

4. Pac-Man Lite.

5. Touch Hockey.

6. Labryinth Lite Edition.

7. Lightsaber Unleashed.

8. Tap Tap Revenge.

9. Flashlight.

10. Shazam

11. Backgrounds.

12. iBowl.

13. Crazy Penguin Catapult.

14. Remote.

15. Bubblewrap.

16. Audi A4 Driving Challenge.

17. Darts.

18. Ebay Mobile.

19. Last.fm

20. Movies

As you can see from above, the top 20 Apps, both free and paid are constantly changing. Apple are doing this delibrately as all featured apps will become popular and the average popular apps will be not so popular anymore, making more downloads occur every minute.

As Apple are doing the competition for downloading a “unique” app and winning a whole bunch of cool gizmos. Techcrunch are just one of the other companies offering goods but this time for guessing the correct time at which the counter will reach 1 Billion, giving the winner a free TechCrunch T-Shirt.

Well, When do you think it will reach the 1 Billion landmark? Post your opinions below and see how close you come!

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2 Responses to Apple edging ever closer to 1 Billion Apps download achievement.

  1. simina on April 12, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    hey i have the movies app its so awesome btw nice article to read

  2. James on April 12, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Alright, you should do the 728×90 ad like this http://thecontaminated.com/ might be good.

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