ITunes prize winner doesn’t believe it when Steve Jobs calls him
Apple had been promising that the the person who downloaded the 10 billionth song from the iTunes Store would win a $10,000 gift card, but it might have helped warn them that Steve Jobs would be calling them also.
The Apple iTunes Store launched on April 28, 2003, and in just under seven years, the 10 billionth song has been sold. Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, GA, 71, purchased “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash and found himself the unsuspecting winner of a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
The humor in this story comes from the fact that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, called Mr. Sulcer to inform him of his luck. According to Rolling Stone, Mr. Sulcer’s reply was, “Yeah, right,” when Mr. Jobs introduced himself on the phone. After four gos at trying to clarify, Mr. Sulcer finally looked at the caller ID on his phone and saw that it said “Apple,” and that finally convinced him that it wasn’t his son calling him impersonating someone else as he has been known to do.
The scary thing is that in January 2009, Phil Schiller, the senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple, announced at MacWorld that the iTunes Store had sold over six billion songs. No word on why there such a huge acceleration in sales in the past 13 months, but it took them six years to sell six billion songs, but four billion in just a year? Pretty amazing.
“We’re grateful to all of our customers for helping us reach this amazing milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “We’re proud that iTunes has become the number one music retailer in the world, and selling 10 billion songs is truly staggering.”
At this rate, when will the 20 billionth song be sold?
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