Comments on: Why Apple’s ‘Billion Apps Downloaded’ countdown is a lie

By: Corwinsr

Corwinsr — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:03:00 +0000

As of Dec 2010 there have been approximately 55 million Iphones sold. As of November 2010 there have been 6 million Ipads sold. That’s a combined total of 61 million devices that can download apps.

Simple math says that every single one of those users has to have downloaded an average of 164 apps in order to reach the supposed 10 billion mark.

I call this a lie.

By: LOVE_MOSS_NOT

LOVE_MOSS_NOT — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:21:15 +0000

I expect Microsoft to catch up to that number day…

…crickets…

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:00 +0000

Apple lies about everything! especially Vista!

By: Imran Hussain

Imran Hussain — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:20:00 +0000

Yes, they did

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:56:00 +0000

It didn’t work at all. I readjusted my clock and reloaded the page. Did Apple adjust something?

By: Imran Hussain

Imran Hussain — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:41:50 +0000

Thanks for the informative comment .

By: Pats

Pats — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Read the contest rules. The Billion app is based on Apple’s servers the countdown is an estimation and is updated hourly. The timer uses a linear rate between updates based on the last update from the server. http://www.apple.com/autopush/us/itunes/includes/countdown.txt. The most recent data
22-APR-2009 08:00:00|993434946|203999. The key date/time |number of downloads |download rate per hour.
Based on the current rate we have about 32.18179501 hours left in the contest. My guess is the rate will pick-up significantly when we get within the last couple hours so this time tomorrow start buying Apps to win limit 25

By: Imran Hussain

Imran Hussain — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:09:00 +0000

‘Who will get something out of it’. Could be you, or anyone of us who gets “$10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.”

By: Imran Hussain

Imran Hussain — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:06:45 +0000

yes, this post is based on TechCrunch’s findings to say that the timer isn’t accurate.
Obviously, the billion downloads mark will be reached, no doubts about that. But the timer doesn’t reflect the real figures. That’s all.

By: AdamC

AdamC — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Does it matter. at least there is one lucky person who got something out of it, in the mean while eat your heart out….lol