It seems that if you set your clock forward to Friday the 24th, Apple’s homepage shows that the billionth app has been sold! Huzzah! Of course, that implies that Apple is pulling one over on us and will declare the billionth app sold whenever it feels the time is right. Hmm, how about Friday, guys?
I just tried and it works. Not sure why I did that. I like BBG’s assessment of the source deciding to watermark the image, when they’ve just told you how to acquire it. Accordingly, I’ve watermarked our image too. Can you spot how?
It will happen few minutes before 8am CET on Thursday (11pm PST on Wednesday). Now Apple blocked the counter on future dates.
Nice “watermark”!
we were making sushi.
It’s not voodoo – it an easy calculation. if you average between 20-25 sales a day and you are currently at 999,900 on Sunday you know you will be between 1,000,000 and 1,000,025 on Friday- duh!!!
After this little deception, do you think you can trust that 999,900 was actually achieved when they said so? Not that it really matters.
but that would mean 10 mil people had the iPhone then they bought 100 apps each. bull sh
Think iPod Touch too…
Are updates for previously downloaded apps counted as app downloads?
apple 40% on all sales correct?? avg sale being what a dollar?? Thats still insane even at a dollar
Or maybe it’s as simple as this. They’ve already reached one billion and simply didn’t update the website the second it happened. What’s so wrong about that?