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iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download
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.'"
This happened Wednesday, winner announced Thursday, hardly news on Friday.
My other sig is extremely clever...
When will Slashdot hit their 1 Billionth Dupe?
Here we have another example of why Digg users are complete idiots. Honestly, Digg is one of the most pathetic websites around and it has a community of complete retards. Pick any story on Digg at random and read the comments for proof...
HA! I don't read digg, but I tried it out. Funny thing was that this was posted on slashdot over a month ago!. And the omments are retarded...
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.
It could have been worse. He could have bought something by Babyshambles, thus giving even more money to that dirty fucking smackhead waster blot on the universe Doherty.
P.S: Ignoring the fact that the NME awards are a fucking joke, NME readers are clearly complete fucking retards with poor judgement and mental health issues. Which explains why Doherty (The dirty fucking smckhead waster blot on the universe) was voted "Sexiest man". If being a smackhead is sexy now, the bums sleeping in doorways are in for a good time.