In spite of all the difficulties, it appears Apple’s App Store is here to stay, piracy or not. A British game designer named Oli Christie became the milestone man after his company, Neon Studios, developed the one-billionth app in Apple’s App Store catalog. Apple’s ten-billionth app is a game called Paper Glider that Oli Christie developed in his home town of Oxford, England. Oli is now referring to himself as the Ten Billion App man after fellow Brit Gail Davis downloaded Paper Glider as Apple’s 10-billionth app, winning a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Much like Davis, Christie missed the call from Apple to congratulate him!
“I’d just put my kids to bed and went to check my phone for e-mails and I saw this missed call from America,” said Christie, who runs Neon Studios. “Then I saw the text that said ‘Mr. Christie, I’m with Apple in Cupertino. Can you call me? I have some good news to share with you.’ It never crossed our minds that the 10-billionth would be one of our games. Watching that counter tick upwards every day like crazy, we never imagined it would be us. This was the biggest stroke of luck ever.”
Neon Play has six apps, which have been downloaded a staggering 6.2 million times. Neon Play launched Paper Glider last month; since its release it has sold 380,000 copies. Not too shabby for an app dubbed “boring” and “lame” by the Apple App Store reviewers!
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