Apple’s iTunes Store just had its 10 billionth song downloaded Wednesday. Things Happen That Way by Johnny Cash was downloaded by Louie Sulcer of Georgia, USA, who will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate for downloading the 10,000,000,000th song.
Posts Tagged milestone
Apple announced last November 4 that the App Store now has more than 100,000 apps in its catalogue and App Store users have downloaded more than 2 billion apps so far. According to Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing: The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a [...]
Apple announced today that in just one year, iPhone and iPod touch customers from 77 different countries have downloaded a total of 1.5 billion apps. The Cupertino company also added that there are now over 65,000 apps in the App Store with 100,000 developers registered in the iPhone Developer program. About three months ago, Apple [...]
MacNN has reported that Flick Fishing has become the first paid iPhone app to reach the one million download mark. Freeverse, maker of Flick Fishing, announced that the milestone was reached over the weekend. Flick Fishing is an iPhone and iPod touch game the lets users take a virtual fishing trip and uses the devices’ [...]
Apple announced in a press release yesterday that over one million iPhone 3GS units have been sold over the weekend. Billed as the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, customers lined up outside Apple Stores as early as June 18, a day ahead of the official launch, in order to be one of the first to [...]
App Store hits 20,000 mark
Feb 12
In just seven months, Apple’s App Store has reached the 20,000th mark. That’s 5,000 more applications to choose from since January 16, 2009. As of writing this, Apptism, a website that tracks applications on the App Store, is tracking 20,142 applications. Looking back, when the App Store officially launched in July 11, 2008, it only [...]
Apple had announced today that it has already sold its one-hundred millionth iPod. In a press release, Jobs calls today as a “historic milestone” and thanks music lovers everywhere for making the iPod such a success. He also attributed the iPod as rekindling people’s love for music. The press release also mentioned that so far [...]
1,000,000,000th download!
Feb 23
Congratulations go to the lucky one-billionth iTMS downloader. He or she wins a 20″ iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and $10,000 worth of iTMS downloads (any media). The one-billionth song downloaded was Coldplay’s Speed of Sound. The winner is Alex Ostrovsky of Michigan. Christopher Breen sums it up with one word: Wow.
300 posts!
Jan 4
For my 300th post I resolve not to make anymore frequent blog posts after Macworld San Francisco 2006. Nobody actually is reading these posts anyway. The top ten most significant Apple moments: April 1, 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create Apple Computer. 1976-77: Apple incorporates and releases the Apple II. 1984: Apple introduces the [...]
The Register reports that Apple said 30 million iPods have been shipped since the iPods started shipping in November 2001. A Piper Jaffray analyst has set a target of 37 million iPods shipped by the end of 2005. BusinessWeek delves into the repercussions of the deal that Apple struck with NAND flash suppliers. The deal [...]
What’s this? More Mac users? That’s according to CNN/Money and Sam Gustin of the New York Post. According to CNN/Money, more people are jumping over the Mac side of the fence because of the popularity of the iPod. In the meantime, Sam Gustin predicts that Mac’s marketshare could double within a decade. I would like [...]
1 million in 20 days
Nov 1
Apple has done it again. It’s been only twenty days since the iTunes Music Store launched its video library and there already has been 1 million downloads. According to Motley Fool, Apple has now the right to to be smug since there indeed is a market for legal downloads. at $1.99 per download, people have [...]
I won? I WON!!!
May 16
It came as a shock to me this morning. I really didn’t expect it. My mobile phone rang and it was a good thing I answered it since I have the tendency to reject or not answer calls when I don’t know who the person is that’s calling me. Me: Hello? Person: Is this Jaime [...]
After launching four new iTunes Music Stores, Apple announced in a press statement that iTMS has sold more than 400 million songs. This is after surpassing the 350 millionth mark last month. The Register reports that with the addition of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland it brings the total of iTunes Music Stores to nineteen. [...]
