10 raised to the power 9. One sixth of the worlds population. A fresh billionarie. Apple’s app store for the iPhone and iPod download figures. So which is the odd one out? We won’t jerk up the suspense much longer. If you have a reasonable IQ you would have guessed the answer.

Well with all due respect to your IQ, you wouldn’t have guessed that one unless you are an iPod/iPhone fanatic. The answer is: NONE. Reason – all the four sentences at the beginning of this post are connected to the number all multimillionaires aspire to – One Billion.
Yes, the download figures of the Apple App store has touched a billion. Surprised? Well the people at Apple were happy but not so surprised. They have been waiting for this milestone for two weeks, patiently counting down to it.

They celebrated in style when the event happened. In fact the lucky customer who did the job of the billionth download will get a good amount of Apple stuff for himself. Apple did have much to brag about and this is what it did.

Who downloaded the billionth app is Connor Mulcahey. $10,000 in iTunes credit, a 17 inch Macbook Pro, 32 GB iPOd Touch and an Apple Time Capsule awaits the lucky Adam who is going to be happy he took a bite off this apple. Yumm…