{"id":1488,"date":"2011-01-14T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2011-01-18T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:10:12","slug":"counting-to-ten-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/counting-to-ten-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting to Ten Billion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">A<\/span>pple has an interesting page right now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/10-billion-app-countdown\/\">counting up to ten billion apps<\/a>. Whoever downloads the ten billionth app receives a $10,000 iTunes gift card. I hope that&#8217;s redeemable for cash somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring the source reveals Apple estimates 1,386,948 apps download <em>per hour<\/em>. If that doesn&#8217;t change, Friday, January 21, 2011 will be the lucky day.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunes\/10-billion-app-countdown\/images\/filmstrip.png\">check out the counter sprite<\/a>. I&#8217;ve cropped it for display here as the original image is over 6,000 pixels tall:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1489\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/counting-to-ten-billion\/filmstrip\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1489\" title=\"filmstrip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/filmstrip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"53\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has an interesting page right now counting up to ten billion apps. Whoever downloads the ten billionth app receives a $10,000 iTunes gift card. I hope that&#8217;s redeemable for cash somehow. Exploring the source reveals Apple estimates 1,386,948 apps download per hour. If that doesn&#8217;t change, Friday, January 21, 2011 will be the lucky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}