1 Billion App Countdown

[Fez]

At the march 27th conference, they had 800 million downloads. To be honest, I think it's legit

[jackass]

At the march 27th conference, they had 800 million downloads. To be honest, I think it's legit

How? It goes up in an exact sequence - it isn't even random.

[RichardKnox]

Because taking a live count would use up resources so they will have looked at sales data over x amount of days/months and will have worked out the average downloads per second, so every second it will go up by the same amount.

[BowTies1]

Because taking a live count would use up resources so they will have looked at sales data over x amount of days/months and will have worked out the average downloads per second, so every second it will go up by the same amount.

as i stated earlier in the thread

[Kyle!]

OK guys they have already hit 1 billion thats just there to represent whats going on, read the text carefully ok!

What are you on about? They haven't reached the 1 billion! In the T&C it doesn't say anything about what you're talking about, stop making stuff up.

As numerous people have said, they'll be using sales data they're representing it live.

[Agnostic Bear]

What are you on about? They haven't reached the 1 billion! In the T&C it doesn't say anything about what you're talking about, stop making stuff up.

As numerous people have said, they'll be using sales data they're representing it live.

It's not live at all, I think it's updated every hour on the hour.

Edit: it is updated once an hour on the hour.

the counter file:
http://www.apple.com/autopush/us/itu.../countdown.txt

and in the javascript:
this.setRate(parseInt(j[2]) / 3600000);

[Suspective]

Its not legit, and as said based on figures obtained in the past.

[:job2]

If you go into the itunes store there is a little advert with a timer, I think that one is accurate, each time you refresh it displays a different number.

This is quite clever from Apple, soo many people want to be that 1 billionth download and the competition is spread over 50 countries! All this means is there App sales are going to go faster than they have been.

Would be nice to win though lol

The competition is legit, Apple have not reached 1 billion yet, the figures are a rough average based on previous sales figures but updated every hour, id imagine during this competition they will update thesales figures to make the counter go faster / slower based on how many people are downloading Apps since the competition began.

EDIT: http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-...own/entryform/ you dont even need to download an App to be entered! All you need to do is submit that form.

[MrPinkPanther]

If you go into the itunes store there is a little advert with a timer, I think that one is accurate, each time you refresh it displays a different number.

Agreed, it seems to update once a minuite and the added number isnt the same every time as far as I can tell.

[Laurensh1]

I follow the one in the iTunes Store... Would be so lucky to be the billionth ;P