# Apple those bastards :D **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292 "2004-07-12T03:19:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ScriptFlipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@ScriptFlipper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ScriptFlipper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/1 "2004-07-12T03:19:53Z")
Haha, I’ve been watching the countdown at [apple.com/itunes](http://apple.com/itunes) and now they’ve disabled it! It’s close to 100 million now, and they just shut it down! I thought I’d wait until it reached 99,950,000 or something but now I jsut have to spam apple with “tell a friend”-emails 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/2 "2004-07-12T03:24:19Z")
Countdown? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/3 "2004-07-12T03:26:19Z")
Countdown to selling 100 million songs. You win alot of stuff you dl the 100 millionth. I’m waiting to buy this album until its closer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/4 "2004-07-12T03:28:16Z")
Exactly 😃 You can’t see it now 😉 (they are counting down to the… HEY hold on, it’s there again! must have been some temporary stuff! well, just ignore this thread then. watch it at [http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/](http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/5 "2004-07-12T03:30:20Z")
better watch it, there will be a big surge at the end there… and I dont know how acurate that web counter is. I certainly dont trust it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/6 "2004-07-12T03:38:25Z")
Just a little tip for us kirupians, unless you missed it. Quoted from the 100 Millionth Download Promotion > How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any Free Download Single of the Week will be deemed an ineligible entry); **or 2) a free alternative means of sending an email to Apple at [itunes100@apple.com](mailto:itunes100@apple.com) via the iTunes “Tell a Friend” feature** (a song download or Tell a Friend email will be deemed an “Entry(ies”). The “Tell a Friend” feature can be easily accessed at iTunes by selecting a song, and clicking the “Tell a Friend” link that is displayed for that song. One Entry will be automatically submitted for each song downloaded or Tell a Friend email sent. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/7 "2004-07-12T03:47:06Z")
Thanks for teh tip! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/8 "2004-07-12T03:59:59Z")
No problem 🙂 I think I’ve submitted 20 times by now, since, as senocular said, we don’t know how accurate that counter is. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/9 "2004-07-12T04:30:44Z")
I’ve had problems in the past with such counters for other things. That fact that it sometimes doesn’t go up and other times jumps up like 50 is kind of suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/10 "2004-07-12T05:06:20Z")
why are they counting tell a friend emails? That seems like the dumbest thing because then when the counter reaches 100 million the number of downloaded songs is really much lower then that. Or am I incorrect? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/11 "2004-07-12T05:09:16Z")
Wow, you have a good point there. _ponders_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/12 "2004-07-12T05:39:15Z")
advertising technique, apple now has a bigger number than anyone else!!! Competitors can’t mess with 100million things, done with stuff… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/13 "2004-07-12T05:56:22Z")
No - they are letting you enter the contest - not counting that as a song _i think_ I wonder who the lucky soul who won is? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/14 "2004-07-12T10:04:32Z")
> Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod. In addition we awarded 50 special 20GB iPods — one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs. lucky bastard… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/15 "2004-07-12T10:49:20Z")
uh huh ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/16 "2004-07-12T11:18:43Z")
> He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod. > holy poop on a stick! 10,000 songs? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-those-bastards-d/57292/17 "2004-07-12T13:02:09Z")
uh huh