Apple Reveals Winner Of App Store Countdown To 25 Billion Apps Contest
March 5, 2012
Three days ago Apple announced through a large graphic on its official homepage that its immensely successful App Store has reached 25 billion downloads. In anticipation of this milestone, Apple held a promo that would reward either the downloader of the 25 billionth app in the App Store or the submitter of the alternative non-purchase entry through a special page on the Apple website immediately following the 24,999,999,999th app download. Today Apple has revealed the name of the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps contest, who won by being the former.
The 25 billionth app downloaded in the App Store happened to be Disney's fluid physics-based game Where's My Water? Free, and it was downloaded by a resident of Qingdao, China, named Chunli Fu. As the winner of the contest, Chunli Fu will receive an iTunes voucher worth a whopping $10,000.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, practically restated the message in the aforementioned graphic: “We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded." He added, "When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users."
Unlike the winner of the previous App Store Countdown to 10 Billion Apps promo, Chunli Fu apparently did not hang up on Eddy Cue's congratulatory call.
