Apple is really, really close to hitting 1 billion app downloads across the world, according to its new countdown page. If you download an app, you’ll be enrolled in a contest to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. TechCrunch is holding its own contest in honor of this occasion. Whoever guesses when it will hit one billion, and is closest in minutes and seconds will get free TechCrunch T-shirt. Leave the guesses in comments; we’ll contact the winner.
Apple also featured the all-time top 20 apps, both paid and free.
Top 20 All-Time Free Apps:
- 1. Facebook
- 2. Google Earth
- 3. Pandora Radio
- 4. Tap Tap Revenge
- 5. Shazam
- 6. Pacman Lite
- 7. Backgrounds
- 8. Touch Hockey
- 9. Labyrinth
- 10. Flashlight
- 11. Urbanspoon
- 12. Movies
- 13. iBowl
- 14. Lightsaber Unleashed
- 15. SOl Free Solitaire
- 16. MySpace Mobile
- 17. Virtual Zippo Lighter
- 18. The Weather Channel
- 19. BubbleWrap
- 20. Remote
Top 20 All-Time Paid Apps:
- 1. Crash Banidcoot
- 2. Koi Pond
- 3. Enigmo
- 4. Bejeweled 2
- 5. iBeer
- 6. Moto Chaser
- 7. Pocket Guitar
- 8. Flick Fishing
- 9. Tetris
- 10. Texas Hold Em
- 11. Super Monkey Ball
- 12. Pocket God
- 13. Cro-Mag Rally
- 14. Ocarina
- 15. Fieldrunners
- 16. iFart Mobile
- 17. Touchgrind
- 18. iHunt
- 19. iShoot
- 20. Monopoly
05/16/2009 9:53:26 AM EST
scratch that my math/calc was off.
Apple will hit 1 billion on 04/27/2009 9:53:26 AM EST
Only I know when that 1 billion landmark will be achieved.
Simple, In this year.lol
Well I think* the 1 billion mark have already completed if we count downloads from warez forums and torrent site.
But Ok lemme guess exactly..It will complete at April 25th 2009 – 12:00 am IST
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
facebook beats myspace 16-1.
Leena Rao.,
What’s your prediction?
APRIL 23, 4:55pm , am i the closest????
My calculations say that 19th April 15:30 GMT
this is at the rate of 100 downloads per second
My calculations say that 19th April 15:30 GMT
this is at the rate of 100 downloads per second
http://kansalvi...y.blogspot.com/
May 3rd, 3:37:37pm PST
That’s 2009 btw.
my calculation says:
2009 April 21th around 19:00 PST
April 24, 2009
10:11:50.62368 PM (Central Time)
I guess 2009, 18th April 11:00 AM PST.
2009 April 17th 13:13:13 GMT
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 7:09:37 AM (Atlantic Standard Time, which would mean 6:09:37 AM EST)
April 23rd, 2009 – 5:46 pm (PST)
April 20th, 2009 — 4:00PM EDT
18th April 2009, 3:48:51 UTC
April 24, 3:03:47 pm EST
My guess is-
april 25, 2009, 12 pm GMT
April 13 4:32:34 PM EST
I don’t get it. Apple is trying to reinvent the mid-1990s PC all over again with most popular third party apps, etc.
April 17th, 10:43:12 pm PST
4/24/2009 6:40:47am
is this also only for US or u will ship to here in India also
No deadline?
April 23, 2009 – 4:44:44pm
wow dude. You were right
April 22, 2009 9:46:45 pm EST
4/18/2009 11:25:10 AM PST
April 19, 2009 16:44 EDT
April 29th at 3:00 EST
The downloaded app counter is fast.. How much does Apple earn every second from downloaded apps?
April 14, 2009 08:14:09 GMT
April 25th at 1:22 am PST
posted this comment at 9:38 am pst on april 10th.
April 14th, 2009 12:40 pm PDT
Dude… Thats just crazy….
April 22, 2009 at 13:15:05 CST
April 22, 2009 3:46:45 pm EST
4/27/09 @ 9:55 A.M. EST….Sorry Jason, I’ve watched too much “Price is Right”.
april 22, 2009 7:20:12 GMT
It will his 1 billion on 4/20/2009 @ 5:30:00
4/20/2009 @ 05:30:00 EST
April 1, 2009, at 8:31:22 PM EST
Was supposed to read:
April 21, 2009, at 8:31:22 PM EST
April 17th, 2009 @ 9:41PM EST
April 17th, 2009 @ 9:42PM EST
April 21st 2009 @ 9:43:21 AM EST
I’ll claim 4/20/2009 1:17pm Eastern
April 15th, 2009 18:06 GMT
April 20th, at 23:30 GMT
I guess April 22nd at 2am MST
My guess is
April 20th – 17:18:28 GMT
April 14, 2009 @ 9:30AM GMT
Seriously, are you breeding a bunch of idiotic authors? Are we in high school?
Umm… my guess is 23 seconds past 56 minutes past 4 hours after Techcrunch learns how to write good articles…
April 17th, 7:07 am
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:47am PDT…
I guess it will be 04/30/09 at 20:15.
April 18th, 10:43:12 pm PST
1 billion…hard to believe.