Earlier this week, Wednesday to be specific, the Almighty Apple reached their 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Apple was holding a contest that whosoever downloaded the 10-billionth song from iTunes, would be graced with a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
Old Jobs thought that since this was such a HUGE milestone he’d give the winner a call. Here it is, a chilly February afternoon, you are sitting, probably watching The Price is Right(since that is what 70 year old people do), your phones starts to ring, so you get up, grab it and answer, like any normal person would…But, normal people usually don’t hear what our lucky friend Louie Sulcer heard…“This is Steve Jobs from Apple.” His answer, which obvious, is “Yeah right, I have a son that loves to play tricks and he does that every now and then — calls me and imitates somebody.”
After asking who the heck was calling him 3 or 4 times, he happened to glance at his trusty caller ID to see it read Apple, which now made him believe who was really on the phone, and that he actually could be the winner of the $10,000 iTunes gift card. Louie Sulce, who was just profiled by Rolling Stone Magazine, is a 70 year old father to 3, grandfather to 9. The guy was just sitting in iTunes grabbing some good old Johnny Cash songs for a mix he was making for his son, and just happened to grab the right song at right time. The 10-Billionth song downloaded was Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way.”
I honestly don’t think it was Mr. Jobs himself, just because I don’t think he is to be bothered with everyday normal people things, I’m pretty sure it was his assistant, but, as I don’t download music from iTunes, I can’t be sure…
