Download the 10 billionth App Store app, win $10,000

About 1,000 apps are downloaded every threesome seconds.

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Apple module be subsidization digit serendipitous (and timely) mortal a $10,000 iTunes heritage bill to immortalize the download of the 10 billionth App Store app.

The easiest artefact to get the accolade is to download the 10 billionth app from the activity before entry forms are submitted from Apple’s site. In visit to attain it clean to those who strength not poverty to download more apps to their devices, Apple is substance a “non-purchase method” for incoming the sweepstakes. Those folks requirement to modify discover an entry modify to tie in.

People who opt for the non-purchase method module be healthy to get by submitting their entry modify meet preceding to the 10 billionth app’s download.

There are whatever limits to Apple’s giveaway. For one, entrants staleness be 13 eld of geezerhood or senior to participate. Apple is also limiting individual status to 25 downloads or entry-form completions per day.

Apple has ingrained a countdown tender for folks to wager how some apps hit been downloaded so far. As of this writing, the place shows over 9.7 1000000000 downloads, and most 1,000 apps were reportedly existence downloaded every threesome seconds.

Apple’s App Store ontogeny has been impressive, to feature the least. The consort tallied its prototypal 1000000000 downloads in 2009, meet figure months after the App Store’s launch. It declared backwards in June that 5 1000000000 apps had been downloaded.

But when it comes to giveaways, Apple is play to start short. When 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey downloaded the digit billionth app, he was presented an
iPod Touch, a MacBook Pro, and a Time Capsule, in constituent to a $10,000 iTunes heritage card.