Apple's Billion iTunes Counter Clicks to One Billion

Thank God for credit... I spent way more than my weekly, nay monthly music allowance last night, buying everything in my wish list from bill cosby to mezzanine. My questions, is how do you know if you won?

The lucky winner will be whisked away in the Jobs-evator to dance with the oompa loompas in a field made of iPods where even the flowers and trees have click wheels.

#14,

What's left of the sun.

Great we've given Apple at least 790,000,000 in revenue

Again... because there is a free entry option, don't you think you get entered for every song and every free entry and after the 1000000th song is sold, they pick a winner out of the entrants? Otherwise I don't see how the free entrants could ever win.

I, too, was waiting to buy at around the 5,000-3,000 to go range. My wife and I had albums cued up on all three of our computers. I picked up the remote to turn down the TV and five seconds later when I looked back, the counter on my iTMS Estimator widget had jumped from 999,994,*** to 1,000,012,***. So, didn't even get to click. Prolly for the best, since I didn't exactly have the money to buy music right now anyway. What do you think they'll give away at 1,000,000,000,000?

The counters on the various apple pages were all at different intervals at the same times, so I highly doubt that these were the actual numbers and the actual threshold. This took screenshots of the counter on the apple website, and the counter from the itunes store at the same time (at 12:30 AM), and the itunes store counter was at least 6K higher than the website counter... fishy.

I almost got the 1,000,000,000 screen cap! Missed it by two:

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Xenedar,
I think Chris is right. I was one of the winners of the 100 million song contest and shortly after I won, they annouced the 4G ipod. I had the same doubts as you but when I eventually received my prize it was the newer product.
In my case, they didn't even announce the new product until after I had won. In this case, the newer products were released before the contest ended. So I'd be fairly confident that the winners will all receive the newest products.
Based on experience though, they won't receive their prize for about 2 months. I'm not complaining - at least I won something for a change. =)

I must be responsible for about 35 of those. ;-)