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iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hitting-the-bigtime dept.

SirWraith writes "In case anyone hasn't realized Apple has had a counter going up to a billion for a few weeks now. Apparently last night, they hit the mark. From ABC News: 'Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay, giving the Cupertino, Calif., company bragging rights to the 10-figure milestone. Thanks to a generous prize package from Apple, Ostrovsky will now use a $10,000 iTunes music card to keep those downloads flowing on his new 20-inch iMac computer, and listen to his favorite tunes on one of the 10 60GB iPods.'"

3 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. NEWS for Nerds... by Microsift · · Score: 0, Troll

    This happened Wednesday, winner announced Thursday, hardly news on Friday.

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    My other sig is extremely clever...
  2. -1: Troll - Slashdot's Record by Seltsam · · Score: 0, Troll

    When will Slashdot hit their 1 Billionth Dupe?

  3. Better use for the money by gcranston · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, Apple decides to give away $15k, $20k or whatever it comes out to worth of stuff for the lucky punk who happens to download the billionth song - and a bad song at that.

    Why couldn't they have put that money to better use like say...
    Porting iTunes to linux?!?!

    I mean come on! How long have we been asking for that? Wouldn't it be one little victory over MS if this application ran seamlessly on the only operating systems that can remotely be considered competition for windows (sorry BSD, I don't mean to offend) Isn't it always said that the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Now that money might not ahve gone all the way to building a working version (I'm no development expert, that's for sure) but it certainly would have helped.