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“I thought it was a prank call,” says Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. “I said, ‘Thank you very much, I’m not interested’ and I hung up.”
Speaking exclusively to CultofMac.com, Davis says it was actually one of her two daughters who downloaded the 10 billionth app, winning the family a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Her daughters, 14 and 17, had downloaded several apps in the morning. One of them, the free Paper Glider app, was the magic 10 billionth app.
“The girls came down and said it wasn’t a prank,” Davis explains. “I had a moment of panic.”
Davis tried to ring Apple back, but got an clueless operator on the company’s helpdesk, who was ultimately unable to help.
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a genuine call,” she says. “The girls were getting quite tense. They never would have forgiven me. They would have held it against me for all eternity.”
I'll bet things were just a tad tense in that household until Apple called back...
