Lucky teen scoops $13,000 in Apple prizes

by Stevie Smith - Apr 27 2009, 15:20

Having set the stage for the billionth download through its online App Store alongside a selection of tantalising prizes, gadget and computer giant Apple Inc. has officially revealed the lucky winner to be a 13-year-old boy from Connecticut.

Scooping a selection of tech goodies amounting to a total prize pot of $13,000 USD, young Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut, brought the App Store beyond the billion barrier on April 24, according to Apple’s official Web site.

In reaching the landmark figure, Apple has duly handed tech-savvy Mulcahey an iTunes gift card worth a whopping $10,000 USD, along with a desirable iPod Touch handset, a MacBook Pro computer and a Time Capsule.

“The revolutionary App Store has been a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod Touch users around the world, and we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve the astonishing milestone of one billion apps downloaded,” trumpeted Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple.

Apple has confirmed that information-sharing application Bump (from Bump Technologies) was the download of choice for Mulcahey, who plucked it from a software selection that presently spans more than 35,000 apps across 77 countries delivering everything from practical features to throwaway snatches of entertainment.

It has taken Cupertino-based Apple a mere nine months to reach a full billion downloads since its App Store launched through iTunes on July 11 of 2008.

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