The winner of Apple’s
billion App countdown contest is a 13-year-old from Weston, Conn., who
downloaded Bump, an application that lets users bump their iPhones together in
order to exchange contact information.
Winner Connor
Mulcahey will receive a MacBook Pro, a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch
and a Time Capsule.
Apple hosted the
contest in connection with its App Store, originally launched on July 8, reaching
a billion Apps downloaded by users. The milestone was reached on April 23,
and Apple marked the event with large ads in The New York Times and other
high-profile media outlets.
The App Store
has grown to offer more than 25,000 applications, with its most popular ones
including Facebook for iPhone and Google Earth, as well as games
such as Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D. It ran into controversy
earlier this week over a 99-cent "Baby
Shaker" App that was eventually pulled from the App Store after protests; an
Apple spokesperson later characterized the program as "deeply offensive."
The iPhone has
also grown to offer more enterprise-centric apps from SAP, Salesforce.com and others.
The iPhone has
also become a stronger device for the enterprise with the inclusion of business-oriented apps by SAP, Salesforce.com and others.
Roughly 17
million users in 80 countries are iPhone users, according to the company. Some
3.7 million devices were shipped during the first quarter of 2009, helping
propel Apple
to strong quarterly results that included net profit rising to $1.21 billion
from $1.05 billion a year ago, with gross margins of 36.4
percent.
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