Apple’s online application store has hit one billion downloads after opening only nine months ago. The store provides applications for the iPhone and iPod touch and is available in 77 different countries with over 35,000 differenet applications to chose from.
The person to download the 1 billionth application was a thirteen year old boy from West Connecticut, USA. He was awarded a $10,000 gift card for iTunes, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule backup system for the Mac, and a MacBook Pro, according to an article on informationweek.com
However, it’s not all good news for Apple’s applications with it’s ‘Baby Shaker’ game coming under obvious scrutiny this week being described as ‘deeply offence’ by Apple themselves. The game, reported by BBC News, ‘sparked outrage from childrens groups and brain injury foundations’. The game invloved quieting crying babies by shaking the screen until red x’s appeared on the eyes and was rightly removed two days after it went on sale.
