Just nine months after the revolutionary App Store opened, Apple today announced, Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year old from Weston, CT, downloaded the one billionth app. By downloading Bump, a free contact swapping app created by Bump Technologies, the teenager became the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest and will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.
Just nine months after the revolutionary App Store opened, Apple today announced, Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year old from Weston, CT, downloaded the one billionth app. By downloading Bump, a free contact swapping app created by Bump Technologies, the teenager became the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest and will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.
“We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, in announcing the company’s March quarter financial results. In its fiscal 2009 second quarter, Apple posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. Gross margin was 36.4 percent, up from 32.9 percent in the year-ago quarter.
“The App Store — stocked with 15,000 titles — is on tap to move its 1 billionth application any day now,” reports Jefferson Graham (usatoday.com). And it’s applications from relatively small developers, like Smule, that have created such entertaining apps as Ocarina (one of the best-selling apps on the App Store) and Leaf Trombone (a newcomer to the Store) that are leading the way.
In theaters on Earth Day 2010, Oceans invites us to journey beneath the waves to glimpse the wild and untamed world that few get to see. The Disneynature film tells the story of the perils and uncertain future the inhabitants of this world face while at the same time showing us the bright future that could occur if we’re willing to change the way we treat the world’s oceans.
