No thanks, I don't need the $$.

[Edward78]

OMG

People weasel their way into our lives in order to sell us cable TV, a zoo membership, or enhanced reproductive organs.

So who could be surprised when Gail Davis, a woman in Orpington, England, picked up the phone, listened to someone offering her a prize, and immediately replied, "Thank you very much; I'm not interested"?

The only problem was that the caller really was someone from Apple and Davis really had won a prize. For her household was, indeed, the one from which the 10 billionth app had been downloaded from Apple's app store.

 

[Aod]

frankly, a phonecall is a pretty inadvisable way of notifying people so something like this.

i'd have expected it to be more like a traditional apple-style letter with shiny text and the like.

 

[DiCe!]

Said letter would have cost 10x as much as a normal letter though?

 

[Aod]

Said letter would have cost 10x as much as a normal letter though?

Apple are giving away $10,000 dollars in a marketing stunt. another $30 dollars for a fancy letter for the lucky customer to hold up for the local paper would far outweigh it's cost

 

[Rameses]

haha just read about this

VP of iTunes finally rang her back to say who he was and why they were calling.

Nice present to have in your iTunes account, £6k available to spend.

They'll need a Drobo with 8x2TB just to hold what they buy, be it Apps/Music/Movies!

Very jealous!

 

[jas72]

indeed i was monitoring this but needless to say it was sat night and a kids stealing stuff using moms itunes account

 

[Mr-White]

Surely Apple would realise phoning a winner directly would appear to much of a scam. They should just credit the account and then contact the winner.

£6k on steam would be nicer, although pretty useless to a mac owner lol

MW

 

[HAz]

I would sell the account on ebay if i won, i have no use for itunes.

 

[J1234]

£6,000 to spend on iTunes is more of a punishment than a prize.

 

[Vonhelmet]

£6,000 to spend on iTunes is more of a punishment than a prize.

I'd run out of music I wanted before I'd spent it all.

 

[kae2]

£6,000 to spend on iTunes is more of a punishment than a prize.

 

[CHokKA]

How generous of Apple, they make millions every week and they give the person that downloaded the 10 billionth app a measly $10k as a marketing stunt? Good stuff...

 

[Vonhelmet]

How generous of Apple, they make millions every week and they give the person that downloaded the 10 billionth app a measly $10k as a marketing stunt? Good stuff...

What would you have suggested? They're not obligated to give their customers anything beyond what they're paying for.

 

[CHokKA]

What would you have suggested? They're not obligated to give their customers anything beyond what they're paying for.

No, I agree that they're not obliged to give anything, but they chose to, and it's a bit of a crappy amount really.

 

[Theophany]

No, I agree that they're not obliged to give anything, but they chose to, and it's a bit of a crappy amount really.

You must be loaded to snort at $10k worth of free music, TV, Movies etc

 

[Frozennova]

I'd rather the £6k in store credit in fairness

 

[Ekim]

The best way to use the credit would be to make your own app in the app store for $999, buy it 10 times. Sure Apple would take a 30% cut and you'd have to pay for the developers licence etc. but you should still make a nice profit from it.

 

[Phoenixdancer]

The best way to use the credit would be to make your own app in the app store for $999, buy it 10 times. Sure Apple would take a 30% cut and you'd have to pay for the developers licence etc. but you should still make a nice profit from it.

good idea

 

[SMN]

Reminds me an awful lot of the XKCD:

 

[silversurfer]

6k buys a lot of justin beeber tunes, lucky them