Apple is closing in on the 1,000,000,000th app downloaded world wide and they are running a contest to commemorate the event with the grand prize being a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Other prizes include an iPod touch and a MacBook Pro among other fine items. The App Store has been open for about 9 months which works out to roughly 110 million downloads monthly, all the way down to about 44 per second. Apple has posted a running scoreboard that gives a live estimate on the number of downloaded apps while you watch. If you are in to self-hypnosis or just have nothing better to do, you can see the numbers change right before your eyes by hitting this link where you can also get contest rules and a list of the top 20 downloaded apps of all time. A rough calculation gives us April 30th as a guess as to when number 1,000,000,000 will be reached, so check back here when the target is hit and we will see how close we came.
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Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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