Apple To Give $10,000 To Person Who Had 50 Billionth Download on App Store

The Apple App Store hit 50 billion downloads Wednesday and the company has come up with a generous way to thank its customers according to CNET.com.

The individual who downloaded the app number 50 billion will receive a $10,000 gift card to the APP store and the first 50 people who downloaded right after that person will each get a $500 gift card.

Apple publicized its plan for the promotion at the beginning of May and added a counter in iTunes. It later added one on its website which showed many variations explaining the immense size of the number 50 billion.

Apple had a similar contest in March 2012 when the App Store download count was nearing 25 billion. Chunli Fu from Qingado, China, won a $10,000 gift card to the App Store.

Apple also released information earlier this month that games are a major reason the App Store reached its recent milestone, according to USA Today.

15 of the 25 top downloaded apps from the store were games.

Apple has made no announcement as to who the winners are from this month’s competition but the company says the announcement is coming.

Here is a list of the top downloaded apps for Apple:

Top 25 paid apps of all time for iPhone

1. Angry Birds

2. Fruit Ninja

3. Doodle Jump

4. Cut the Rope

5. Angry Birds Seasons

6. WhatsApp Messenger

7. Camera+

8. Words With Friends

9. Tiny Wings

10. Angry Birds Space

11. Pocket God

12. Plants vs. Zombies

13. The Game of Life

14. The Moron Test

15. Where's My Water

16. Draw Something

17. Monopoly

18. Angry Birds Star Wars

19. MotionX GPS Drive

20. Skee-Ball

21. Scrabble

22. Uno

23. Minecraft -- Pocket Edition

24. Color Splash

25. The Sims 3

Top 25 free apps of all time for iPhone

1. Facebook

2. Pandora

3. Instagram

4. YouTube

5. Skype

6. Words With Friends Free

7. The Weather Channel

8. Twitter

9. Temple Run

10. Google Search

11. Netflix

12. Shazam

13. Angry Birds Free

14. Draw Something Free

15. Flashlight

16. Facebook Messenger

17. Google Earth

18. Fruit Ninja Free

19. iHeartRadio

20. Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes

21. Bump

22. eBay

23. Pac-Man Lite

24. Groupon

25. Google Maps

Top 25 paid apps of all time for iPad

1. Pages

2. Angry Birds HD

3. Angry Birds Seasons HD

4. Where's My Water?

5. Fruit Ninja HD

6. Angry Birds Space HD

7. GarageBand

8. Words With Friends HD

9. Cut the Rope HD

10. Keynote

11. Numbers

12. Angry Birds Star Wars HD

13. GoodReader for iPad

14. Scrabble HD for iPad

15. Minecraft – Pocket Edition

16. Plants vs. Zombies HD

17. Notability

18. Monopoly for iPad

19. Quickoffice Pro HD

20. StarWalk HD

21. Draw Something

22. iMovie

23. iPhoto

24. Where's My Perry?

25. Bad Piggies HD

Top 25 free apps of all time for iPad

1. Skype

2. The Weather Channel

3. Netflix

4. Angry Birds HD Free

5. Kindle

6. Facebook

7. Pandora Radio

8. Calculator for iPad Free

9. Fruit Ninja HD Free

10. Words With Friends HD Free

11. Google Earth

12. ABC Player

13. Calculator Pro for iPad Free

14. Temple Run

15. YouTube

16. eBay

17. CNN

18. Dropbox

19. Adobe Reader

20. Twitter

21. Solitaire

22. New York Times

23. Temple Run 2

24. Hulu Plus

25. Draw Something Free