The App Store was introduced with the second version of iOS, then called iPhone OS. It brought third party apps to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since then, the App Store has been the most popular of such app repositories. Very popular actually, as nearly 50 billion apps have been downloaded. To celebrate, Apple is giving away an iTunes gift card (which will also work on the App Store), valued at $10,000. Obviously, the one to win that will be the person who downloaded the 50,000,000,000th app. They'll also be giving away 50 $500 gift cards to the first 50 people who download an app after the milestone is reached.
It's a great chance to win some money, but it's also amazing to think about how far the App Store has come. iOS 7 and the 7th generation iPhone could be a huge hit for Apple, so maybe it won't take 5 years to hit 100 billion.
You can watch the progress of the App Store countdown to 50 billion here.
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