iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

Neat promotion. I wonder how many hackers are going to try and figure out just how to be the big winner.

Why don't I have access to the music store yet?? Norway before 100 million please?

I wonder how long they'll keep that song countdown. It seems like it would be too easy for people to time their purchases.

Otherwise, this is an awesome promotion! One more excuse to buy iTunes songs, thanks Apple.

the song count doesn't seem to dynamically update, unless there's several hours between each song purchase. hehe. Apple would be smart to put a dynamically updated counter on there, or atleast once-per-hour update...because once it gets real close, they'll see a HUGE explosion of song purchases for people trying to win the iPod.

I wonder if you tilt your screen at a certain angle that will increase the chances of winning. :D

Did anyone else notice that there are 2 free songs to download? Click on the free song, click on the album, go to favorite iMixes and click the free songs iMix. At the bottom of the list is 2 free songs.

It's updated every minute.

EDIT: Actually it's every 5 minutes on the dot.

the song count doesn't seem to dynamically update, unless there's several hours between each song purchase. hehe. Apple would be smart to put a dynamically updated counter on there, or atleast once-per-hour update...because once it gets real close, they'll see a HUGE explosion of song purchases for people trying to win the iPod.

4,432 songs in like 12 minutes since this posting.

We're invited too....cool :D

the song count doesn't seem to dynamically update, unless there's several hours between each song purchase. hehe. Apple would be smart to put a dynamically updated counter on there, or atleast once-per-hour update...because once it gets real close, they'll see a HUGE explosion of song purchases for people trying to win the iPod.

No, if they put the counter up then no one would buy at all because everyone would be going "I can't buy a song now, its not close to the million mark!!!!"

Besides, it takes all the fun out of it if you KNOW you aren't going to win when you buy a song.

Now if you want to ENSURE you win, you just have to buy 503,094 songs.

I wonder if anyone will take a chance and just buy songs like crazy, say 1000 of them, in hopes of getting the $14,000 prize. If only you could add a bunch of songs to a shopping cart then buy them all at once.