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Closed AccountJan 23, 2011
My guess is the 10 billionth download was a fart noise app?
And why not just give $10,000? Seems like a prety s**tty prize for such a big number.
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
can you go one day without bitching like a little brat about the most useless mundane bulls**t, or is that something we can all agree that is impossible for you to manage?
breadfredJan 23, 2011
No he can't.
rethreadJan 24, 2011
Couldn't he have just said "first"... *sigh*
sdipaolaJan 23, 2011
I stopped buying Music CDs and itunes when the cable, record and phone companies bribed our (ignorant to tech) congressman to pass laws to arrest and sue our kids for trading files and basically making the equivalent of mixed tapes of their age. Why I will consider buying apps, I never buy anything from a closed (no fair rules but corporate greed) based app store like Apples. I and other diggers, spent 25 years making the computer based infrastructure 'open' - Apples app store especially as it jump the device to computer boundary (ipad) is subverting that.
RexoffJan 23, 2011
=D!!! I wish I could Digg this twice. TOTALLY AGREE!
Closed AccountJan 23, 2011
I love peope like you who think hat you are smarter than others because they do things that you don't like. It is not ignorance of tech...it is YOUR ignorance of the law...and life in general.
Your parents failed you. Big time.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sdipaolaJan 23, 2011
actually most people are like me, hence file trading - and I know the law quite well here - companies ( RIAA, cable, ...) that long ago stopped giving people what they wanted but rather than compete just bribed congress to protect them with ridiculous laws (DMCA) - if that didn't happen new real innovative startups would have come in and done what happens all the time in a capitalist based democracy - replaced the dinosaurs companies by having a product or service that is better. do you really think we should be buying a song from an artist more than once ( it is a data pattern that we are buying), record, tape, CD, itunes w/ DRM, itunes w/o DRM, itunes album OR that we should buy UNLIMITED bandwidth over and over again - at home as broadband, on our iphones, on our phone w/ tethering, again on our ipads - why is access ties to a product and not an individual. Why are we paying extra for long distance on a wireless device - once the hop on the cell node - you are on the cloud like anyone else - you should pay voip rates for long distance -- it is just data one the clod. it is all companies pretending that we should buy things based on old industrial age thinking when we are in the info age. There hasn't been anything like a telephone system for years - it is all just data on the cloud , yet telephone companies bribe congress to keep telephone regulation ( and cost structure) alive when it is all just data - some of us know this and I guess others will eventually figure it out.
rethreadJan 24, 2011
@sdipaola
:)
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
keep quacking... quack quack quack...
breadfredJan 23, 2011
jterryjohn, you just keep on throwing personal insults. Really mature.
There is only one person you are failing btw - and that is yourself.
thecollective00Jan 24, 2011
I'm so glad jterryohn's backwards and obsolete views are held by a small and rapidly shrinking minority...I can't wait until his kind becomes extinct forever.
kingfootJan 23, 2011
That doesn't make sense to me. The app store doesn't really tie you to any drm other than... you bought it. And can now download it (as well as found it) in one centralized source with real ratings and screenshots and information from people who bought/used and the developer. On the computer it doesn't hold you from anything at all. It lets you buy an app that still costs money on the authors site, right from a convenient and safe location within an app itself.
I don't understand how the app store on Mac circumvents anything other than making it convenient for developers to sell apps, and users to buy apps that would always cost that much anyways.
sdipaolaJan 23, 2011
Yes, kingfoot, the app store is convenient, safe and one of the best designed out there. I do not disagree with that. I have two issues I was trying to discuss - I should let you know I am a researcher in this area so am not out to put down but to discuss in the long term, so as a shared tech direction - we are doing the right thing. From that standpoint, one issue is apps themselves as opposed to open software, some apps are simply ways to filter out choices in the name of simplification. Many apps get you the same thing you can get on the website but the company can filter and direct in closed ways. Or are substitutes from getting to the file system ( YOUR data) on your own, so constrain your choices. Another is how Apple closes app use to only their store, with arbitrary rules, and does not hesitate to ban apps that users would want for competitive reasons. Why can't we tether, why can we use our home paid for broadband on our powerful computer to make voip calls via our cell phone. An App that calls our computer (local call) to send out all long distance and other processing or data intense work. Why did apple charge those who already brought songs w/ DRM , again and full price for a song they already bought ( w/o DRM). The large issue is corporate bundling - that companies ( carriers, Apple, RIAA, ..) are playing a game where they are bundling service with hardware or software - the nature of an app. We geeks spent 25 long years making the computer world open - that is within compatibly YOU buy and own your hardware, software, data and access and can tie them together anyway you want. App-based and Carrier rules are trying to destroy that democratic use - deciding that access ( your internet) is not tied to you but to a device ( so you need to buy it over and over again). Or with many apps that data is tied to software and you can't look at it or use it with other software or on your file system. What I call corporate bundling and made up rules. While Apple is great and hip and all , if we let them get away with this new approach ( or move it from the device world to the computer world) the real ugly companies will come in and have people sued and arrested because they do not use their data,software, hardware in the new rule based way that companies want you to. They are sueing thousand of people now for trading music, while they do not sue anyone who goes to the library and rips the same music. So the ipad ( and apple) is that dangerous leak, where device rules and moving over to our computer systems. I for one do not want my kids ( and students) in a world where they can go to jail because a company changes basic rules of computer use and gets congress to enforce them. The world pirate ( able to move your data around) and jailbreaker ( able to use your bought software on your bought device) were created by corporations to demonize what our kids do, that they do not like.
kingfootJan 24, 2011
I know, you make several great points about their locked down iPhone OS, but honestly, on the Mac it is completely different because all the app store does, is download from a centrally located server, the same program you can buy on the developers website. It doesn't do anything but install it in the same exact way, but with one or two simple clicks. It feels like you're making a mountain out of a molehill in terms of the App store on Mac.
But I want to stress that your points are completely valid and accurate for their iOS.
sdipaolaJan 24, 2011
I agree with you, the Mac and OSX are great - and the app store for them should be innovative and interesting. My issue is with iOS or more specifically how some of us were surprised and now worried that Apple choose to beef up the iOS for the ipad rather than make an OSX lite for it - this then caused the -see above - no user file systems ...) to, for the first time, jump over to the computer side.. It could be fine but if it keeps migrating to netbooks and laptops - then the worry is the open computer model as we know it will be compromised and bad large companies (RIAA,film, carriers, cable) will make up how to charge you via fake bundling and call you a thief for not doing it their way. Some - even my friends at Apple call this ( in the negative) the Sony-fication of Apple.
yamallama4Jan 23, 2011
Go Apple Go!!
They hit 10 billion first, just like they do everything else first. How long will Android take to catch up? Who cares, they will always be tripping in Apple's footsteps.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rufunkiJan 23, 2011
Really? You just had to turn it into a fanboi thread. There is tons apple did not do first, but facts aside, they sold 10 billion apps.. I agree with the first commenter, I think it should have been higher than 10k.... Do 100k and tell them after every 5 billion apps sold. It would be like the lottery for apple owners.
Closed AccountJan 23, 2011
At the very least, it should be $10,000. Or even a $10,000 Apple Gift Card...not an iTunes care. Though I guess I don't know for sure...but I assume that an iTunes card can only be used to buy media and apps...and not merchandise? If my assumption is correct, the person will likely NEVER spend it all, and Apple knows it. At least if it was a Gift Card, they could use it to buy some overpriced hardware.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
then sell it for slightly less than its face value for cash, you dimwit.
Closed AccountJan 24, 2011
who do you think is going to buy a $10,000 iTunes gift card you stupid f**k?
Virtually NO ONE is going to put $10,000 worth of music of apps on their devices. So no one will pay anywhere NEAR $10,000
Closed AccountJan 23, 2011
Holy s**t.do you not hear yourself? You are CHEERING for a f**king electronics company!
That literally may be the most pathetic thing I have ever heard.
yamallama4Jan 23, 2011
if I was cheering some boring copy cat electronics company like htc or samsung or dell or hp, sure. but this is Apple I'm talking about! The iPhone, have you heard of it?!?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
nedzeveJan 23, 2011
You must be trolling. Apple has done nothing but copy other's innovations.
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
you haven't read your own comments then, because they are pathetic on a daily basis.
dandoniaJan 23, 2011
Unless he has shares, then it makes sense.
I wonder if you call fans of sports teams pathetic.
skidooerJan 23, 2011
It is no more strange than cheering for a professional sports team, which, granted, is a little strange in itself.
nedzeveJan 23, 2011
That's a pretty strained analogy. Sports games are contested under carefully defined sets of conditions. Not so in the realm of technological innovation.
rethreadJan 24, 2011
Chicago lost tonight 21-14. Managers will have that in their heart and soul when they wake up in the morning. Hey, I just run the machines.
skidooerJan 24, 2011
Either way, you are cheering for a brand which exists for the sole purpose of making money.
rethreadJan 24, 2011
I kinda like newegg.com. Anybody got a problem with that? Anyone?
cawpinJan 23, 2011
Stop feeding the trolls...
gamingforeverJan 23, 2011
Kinda old news: http://digg.com/news/technology/apple_celebrates_10_000_000_000_app_downloads_with_10k_gift_card
rusty0101Jan 23, 2011
Would think that the headline should read: "Apple App Store hits magical 10 billion app download milestone, awards self $10k in sales"
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
when you take something from the left column and move it to the right column, i don't think that's considered income.
skinturtleJan 23, 2011
Was it really magic?
enzomediciJan 23, 2011
$50 billion in cash reserves and they only give away $10k ? What a bunch of stingy f**ks.
mikepictorJan 23, 2011
I suppose you would have turned it down.
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
scraping the bottom of the barrel these days, looking for ways to insult Apple.
justjohn025Jan 23, 2011
What the hell is someone going to do with a $10,000 iTunes gift card? I'd rather have a $5,000 Apple Store gift card than a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
enantiodromiaJan 23, 2011
then sell it for $5000, duh
justjohn025Jan 23, 2011
No one wants to buy a $100 iTunes gift card
skidooerJan 23, 2011
With an average price of $2.50 per app in the App Store, I guess one would download 4000 apps with a $10,000 gift card.
siddharthslmJan 23, 2011
wow.. grt !!
ryu123Jan 23, 2011
I wish I would have won that:)
warmsummersJan 23, 2011
The woman won't live a life. She will use app.
watebs161412Jan 23, 2011
great more useless apps
wtfwasthatJan 23, 2011
Didn't think the one billion download was the real billionth. Don't think this was either. But I don't trust most conpanys anyway.
nedzeveJan 23, 2011
Who would want $10,000 in iTunes? You can get anything from iTunes for free and without DRM.
rethreadJan 24, 2011
Yeah, jizzed my pants.