Apple on Friday revealed that Connor Mulcahey, a 13 year-old from Weston, Connecticut, as the winner of its billion app countdown contest.
He downloaded Bump (which allows users to send contact information between iPhones) –the App Store’s billionth download, to his iPhone.
Apple awards Mulcahey a MacBook laptop, an iPod Touch, an Apple Time Capsule backup system and a $10,000 iTunes gift card. What a haul just for downloading a single app!
Connor said he learned he won through an e-mail sent to his iPhone on Thursday as he was on the way home from baseball practice. The vice president of iTunes ad written him personally to congratulate him, and he didn’t believe the news at first, considering it a prank. He admits downloading quite a bit recently, trying to win the prize, like many others, its assumed.
Connor is keeping the MacBook for himself, but he’s giving the one he bought a few weeks ago to his brother and sister. His iPod Touch is going to his mom. And he’s going to try to sell his $10,000 worth of iTunes songs on eBay — unless the money is directly deposited into his iTunes account.
“Then I guess that’s pretty much unlimited downloads for life,” he said.
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