Apple Hits More Than 50 Billion Downloads ~ Hackinthus

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Apple Hits More Than 50 Billion Downloads

Apple's App store has hit 50 billion downloads after launching in July of 2008, As tradition, the company celebrates the milestone with multiple prizes, including a $10,000 gift card awarded to the customer who downloaded the 50 billionth and 50 more $500 gift cards to the next few individuals.






Apple on their website said "Thanks" to all their customers and further said that "It couldn't have happened without you".The countdown to 50 billion ticker first launched on May 2, and was followed by a featured promotion on the company's homepage. If we compare it with Google,It had its own milestone to announce: 48 billion downloads announced onstage at I/O today.

Apple has revealed that the 50 billionth app downloaded was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, and the winner of the $10,000 App Store gift card for downloading it is Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio.

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