Apple today stepped up their promotion for the upcoming milestone 50 billionth app download form the App Store. Apple will mark the event with a $10,000 iTunes Store gift card to the person who downloads the milestone app.
The milestone is now being promoted as the main feature on Apple’s front page, with an animated counter being accompanied by a rotating series of iPad mini app photos with associated facts to put the “50 billion” number in perspective.
The “50 billion” facts mentioned on the front page are:
- “With 50 billion steps, you could walk around the earth more than 800 times.” [Solar Walk]
- “With 50 billion bricks, you could build 12 Great Walls of China.” [ProCamera HD]
- “Counting to 50 billion would take you 1600 years.” [Intro to Math, by Montessorium]
The first 50 downloaders who follow the downloading of the 50 billionth app will receive $500 gift cards each.
The contest was announced by Apple one week ago, and the counter read just over 49.2 billion downloads at the time. The counter is now registering a little over 49.6 billion downloads, so it should take close to another week to reach the milestone download.
