Apple has just announced the winner of the 50 Billion App Downloads promotion. The App Store crossed the milestone yesterday.
Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio has won the grand prize of $10,000 iTunes gift card. The 50th billion app to be downloaded was the free word game Say The Same Thing from the band OK Go developed by Space Inch, LLC.
Last week, Apple launched the 50 billion app downloads promotion, announcing a $10,000 gift card as a prize to the lucky person who downloads the 50 billionth app from the App Store.
Apple has published a list of the most downloaded iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store, since its launch in 2008. The announcement comes alongside Apple’s “50 Billion Apps Countdown” promotion, which promises a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to the user who will download the 50th billion app.
When Apple launched the App Store on July 10th, 2008, even they would not have thought in their wildest imaginations that it would end up becoming such a huge success.
The success of the App Store was clear when one billion apps were downloaded in just 9 months. Fast forward to today and the App Store is about to hit the magical 50 billion app download mark.
Last last year, Apple removed app tracking service AppShopper’s iOS app from the App Store over violation of section 2.25 of the review guidelines that forbid App Store clones. The service has now come back to the App Store in the form of an all new app named “AppShopper Social” that, as you might have guessed, uses social features as a way to distinguish itself from the App Store.
It looks like Apple’s decision to remove AppGratis from the App Store could get it into trouble, at least in Europe.
Reuters reports that France will ask European Commission for tighter regulations following Apple’s removal of the app discovery service from the App Store.
After listening to the horror stories due to the in-app purchase feature, I thought it was high time I wrote a tutorial that shows parents how to disable the feature before giving a child an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Apple had added the feature to restrict access to In-App Purchases back in 2010, so I am quite sure many of you already know how to disable it. If you don’t then continue reading.
Apple has just informed app developers that it won’t be accepting iPhone apps that don’t support iPhone 5′s taller display and apps that don’t support Retina display after May 1. It will also reject apps that use the outdated unique device identifier or UDID.
