{"id":17923,"date":"2011-01-22T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-22T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:13:00","slug":"10-billion-apple-apps-downloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/17923-10-billion-apple-apps-downloaded.html","title":{"rendered":"10 Billion Apple apps downloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">The milestone, announced on Apple Inc.&#8217;s website  Saturday, arrives as the company&#8217;s hugely popular smart phone is likely  to become even more popular with the addition next month of Verizon  Wireless as a carrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The company has sold tens of millions of iPhones since  the device launched in 2007 and continues to expand the use of apps with  its iPad tablet computer. Its app store has drawn an army of software  developers hoping to piggyback on the company&#8217;s success. The store now  boasts more than 350,000 different programs for the iPhone, iPod Touch  or iPad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Apple said it would give the 10 billionth person to  download an app a $10,000 gift card to its iTunes store, which now  offers movies and TV shows along with digital music files. The prize  went to Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, in the U.K. She downloaded a free  game app called Paper Glider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/304665-10-Billion-apps-downloaded-from-Apple-app-store\"><strong>Apple app downloads<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple says that its app store has hit the 10 billion downloads mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}