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iPod 500 Millionth Download Promotion
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Going roughly by the counter on the apple site, you can only imagine the HUGE jump in sales once it hits 499 999 950 songs sold.
My First Widget
Download iTunes 500 Million Countdown Widget Here!
Sometimes needs to be refreshed with a Cmd-R each time Dashboard is brought up, but then cycles through the countdown just like the real webpage. If this helps someone to get their timing right to buy that 500 millionth song, please let me have one of the iPods
I cut up the apple/itunes page in GoLive until all I had left was the counter, eliminated some extra css info from the source code, and made it into a widget!asif786 said:
Download iTunes 500 Million Countdown Widget Here!
Sometimes needs to be refreshed with a Cmd-R each time Dashboard is brought up, but then cycles through the countdown just like the real webpage. If this helps someone to get their timing right to buy that 500 millionth song, please let me have one of the iPods
blybug said:I cut up the apple/itunes page in GoLive until all I had left was the counter, eliminated some extra css info from the source code, and made it into a widget!
Download iTunes 500 Million Countdown Widget Here!
Sometimes needs to be refreshed with a Cmd-R each time Dashboard is brought up, but then cycles through the countdown just like the real webpage. If this helps someone to get their timing right to buy that 500 millionth song, please let me have one of the iPods
hey dude, i downloaded, and installed but it doesn't show up in my dashboard or in the widget selector. just a headsup..not sure if it's just me or what..
Thanks for the heads up...try it again now...asif786 said:
Download iTunes 500 Million Download Widget Here
I zipped it after it was already on my iDisk but apparently the zip didn't take and just made an empty zip file. This time I zipped it locally and then uploaded to the iDisk. Seems to download and install OK now.
J-Squire said:
Erm, did I read that right?! "a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom."? When were those countries annexed to the USA?
In any case, "excluding the Province of Quebec" screws me every time. I hate Loto-Quebec!
(it's because of them if most contests aren't valid here, they require too many ******** requirements/fees).What would be your iPod Mix???
If you were the winner, what would be your mix of iPods??
Mine would be:
1 6GB Mini (I already have a 1 GB shuffle) Blue
1 U2 iPod (Just cuz it's cool)
2 60 GB iPods for myself
1 60 GB iPod for my wife
5 60 GB iPods I would give/sell the following way
1 thing...if the iTunes phone is out before the 500,000,000 song and you were the winner, would the phone be available AS a iPod for you to select??
If you were the winner, what would be your mix of iPods??
Mine would be:
1 6GB Mini (I already have a 1 GB shuffle) Blue
1 U2 iPod (Just cuz it's cool)
2 60 GB iPods for myself
1 60 GB iPod for my wife
5 60 GB iPods I would give/sell the following way
- 1 iPod for my Dad
- 1 iPod for my Mom
- 1 iPod for my Brother
- 1 iPod for my Sister In-Law
- 1 iPod to sell on eBay so I can purchase a iTunes Phone or a Smartphone
1 thing...if the iTunes phone is out before the 500,000,000 song and you were the winner, would the phone be available AS a iPod for you to select??
mpw said:
Yeah, DC isn't a state, but it's usually said separately from the rest of the states because it's its own district. From how I understand it, the state isn't a part of Maryland, the land mass that it would be on if it weren't separated. Since the government is separated from the state, Washington is its own district. I hope I'm right, and I hope that makes sense. Here is some more information.
-Chase
iMeowbot said:There are still big chunks of the world without iTMS, so that dip may simply be sleeping people
That's what I was thinking when I was up late last night/early this morning.
I betcha Apple is very happy about this whole thing, it's pushing people to buy more songs...
BTW, your avatar is Classic!
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rendezvouscp said:
You are correct that it's not a state, which is why they don't get any votes in Congress (they get no Senator at all and a non-voting Representative). And yet they pay taxes. Hmm...
So folks in D.C. get no representation, but at least they can win free iPods. Woo-hoo!
If I remember correctly, the 100,000,000 song winner was in the middle of downloading the complete U2 when he won and Apple treated each song independently.Militar said:
This whole promotion is cool and it does wonders for the iTMS. I can't help wondering what Apple will have in store for the 1,000,000,000 download.
Kal-EL said:
The winning song was Zero 7's EP - with 3 tracks on it. But yes, I think each song in album is treated individually - whether it counts when it's purchased or as it downloads is another question. On purchase would be most sensible.
neildmitchell said:
For every contest, there's a winner; and if that person didn't "fall" for it, they would not have whatever the prize was now.
I understand that the odds of winning contests are astronomical, but most of them are fun and free (as in no purchase necessary) and get people exited; and as I previously stated, for every contest there is a winner. Try telling some of these winners they shouldn't have fallen for them. My grandmother was a prime example. She used to enter contests of all kinds and back when my dad was a kid, she won $36,500. That's $100. a day for a full year. True, the odds are against me winning this current iTunes promotion but they're not zero. I'll make a few purchases around "zero hour" and will have fun just reading about the winners.
And I'm talking about contests and not state run lotteries. That's a whole different ballgame. I know there are many people who spend grocery money when the jackpot gets high, hoping beyond hope that this will be their break. These people need help. Those that spend money they can't afford on futility are unfortunate souls. I have been known to purchase a tcket or two, but I can afford them and don't spend any more than $5.
Why would anyone buy songs? If you can enter by simply clicking the tell a friend button and sending the e-mail. You can apparently do this as many times as you like. I don't understand why you would buy. Other than being sceptical of being able to win via this method.