A Billion Apps? Wow!

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by john in Everything, Technology

Talk about starting an addiction! It just goes to prove that quality still counts for something. If something is useful and works more than it breaks (becoming a frustration) I guess people use it huh?

All you iPod and iPhone users… go download an app for a chance to win that mac you don’t exactly “need”, but would like anyways. ;) http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/

On a different, but sorta related note… how in the world did Apple do that count down ticker? That is so cool. I’d like to use that as a ticker for unique visitors to my site. Or maybe how many times a file is downloaded or accessed on the server. That would be cool! Obviously wouldn’t go as fast as that ticker on Apple (at least not yet… hehe).

If anyone out there knows how they did that ticker thingy and would like to make me one I’d be willing to pay ya. Let me know in the comments and we can talk offline if you’re serious and it won’t make me go broke. ;)

My MOST USED APPS are as follows if anyone is interested. And they’re both FREE!


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3 Responses to “A Billion Apps? Wow!”

  1. john

    17. Apr, 2009

    dude! I miss the chats as well. Very interesting, your thoughts on this… definitely makes sense.

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  2. Jordan

    17. Apr, 2009

    Hmm, interesting. Take a screen clip of the value.Then close the tab and reload the URL. It will be the same or greater. No idea how they do it. Perhaps it is based on time?

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  3. Jordan

    17. Apr, 2009

    It is moving to fast to be AJAX and it there is no way it is accurate, IMO. Taking a look at the source, it is JavaScript:

    /* RSID: */
    var s_account=”appleglobal,appleitunes,appleusitunesipod”

    s.pageName=AC.Tracking.pageName()+” (US)”;
    s.server=”"
    s.channel=”www.us.itunes”
    s.pageType=”"
    s.prop1=”"
    s.prop2=”www.us.ipod.bu”
    s.prop3=”"
    s.prop4=document.URL;
    s.prop5=”"
    s.prop18=”"
    s.prop19=”"

    /* E-commerce Variables */
    s.campaign=”"
    s.state=”"
    s.zip=”"
    s.events=”"
    s.products=”"
    s.purchaseID=”"
    s.eVar1=”"
    s.eVar2=”"
    s.eVar3=”"
    s.eVar4=”"
    s.eVar5=”"
    if (s.pageName.indexOf(‘itunes – index’) > -1) {
    if(typeof(iTunesDetected) != ‘undefined’){
    if (iTunesDetected()){
    s.prop6=”: itunes – index – a”
    } else {
    s.prop6=”: itunes – index – b”
    }
    }
    }
    var itunesRef = s.getQueryParam(‘ref’);
    if (itunesRef.match(/itunes.com/)){s.prop6=’itunes.com’+s.prop6;}
    else if (itunesRef.match(/idol.com/)){ s.prop6=’idol.com’+s.prop6;}

    /************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
    var s_code=s.t();if(s_code)document.write(s_code)

    Probably just based on a timer that is an estimate of how many downloads there are per second. IE: if they’ve had an average of 1,000 downloads per minute for 1 week they just make the image change that fast. We should discuss this when you get back to work, I’ve missed our chats. :)

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