The lucky winner, Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK earned a $10,000 gift card and the winning app, in case you're keeping track at home, was Paper Glider.
As competing mobile app stores continue to sprout up, there’s still no question that the iTunes App Store remains the top dog. Over the weekend, Apple announced that over 10 billion apps have now been downloaded from iTunes. The lucky winner, Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK is now the lucky recipient of a $10,000 gift card and the winning app, in case you’re keeping track at home, was Paper Glider.
The iTunes App Store first launched in July of 2008 and has been on a tear ever since. 10 billion app downloads is no small feat, especially in light of the fact that it took the iTunes Music Store almost 7 years to reach the 10 billion download milestone. Of course, it’s not the fairest of comparisons as the iTunes Music Store doesn’t offer free downloads, but it’s still a testament to the popularity of the iTunes App Store.
“With more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half years—a staggering seven billion apps in the last year alone—the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams,” Apple executive Phil Schiller explained in a press release. “The App Store has revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and sold. While others try to copy the App Store, it continues to offer developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet.”
Apple’s press release made a point of noting that the iTunes App Store now houses over 350,000 iOS apps, 60,000 of which are iPad native.
But back to the winner of Apple’s app store contest.phone call from Apple executive Eddie Cue informing her that she had won Apple’s 10 billion app download contest, she thought it was a prank call and abruptly ended the call.explained to Cult of Mac. “I said, ‘Thank you very much, I’m not interested’ and I hung up.”
Somewhat comically, when Gail Davis received a
“I thought it was a prank call,” Gail Davis
Davis subsequently tried to call Apple back but didn’t get anywhere talking to an Apple helpdesk operator. Luckily, one of Cue’s colleagues called back a few hours later and cleared things up.
