App Wait-a-Thon: Win $100 in iTunes Gift Cards
Everybody here at the iPhone Blog is very, very excited about the iPhone SDK Roadmap. We can’t wait for native apps, for more functionality, for games, for Apple to go after BlackBerrys. We can’t wait - seriously - it’s going to kill us waiting until “Late June” for all this good stuff. We’ve called in a team of psychiatrists, it’s not looking good.
We bet you feel the same way.
So to help ease the pain we’re instituting the iPhone Blog App Wait-a-Thon! Starting next week and then every week until Apple releases the iPhone 2.0 Software Update, we are going to give away a $100 iTunes Gift Certificate to a lucky reader.
You may not be getting your native apps now, but at least your can download some emo music to drown your sorrows, or a Pixar movie to cheer you up, or the first three seasons of LOST1 to help remind you that it’s not that bad.
Here’s how it will work: Sometime during the week, two to three of our blog postings, articles, or reviews will have “Wait-a-Thon” after the title, that’s your cue to comment on that entry. Comment on that entry and you’ll be automatically entered in that week’s drawing. (Just one entry per post counts, max three per week).
The latest Wait-a-Thon post is always available here. Just take a look over next to the Wait-a-Thon contest graphic!
Full details after the break!
Them Details:
- Open to everybody who has an iTunes store in their country (Yes, Mods too!)
- One entry per “Wait-a-thon” post counts, but feel free to post as much as ya like!
- No cheating on the referrals, we’re watching and we know.
- Contest will run each week until “Late June” or whenever Apple releases the iPhone 2.0 software update. Yes - if Apple’s late we’ll keep it running. This is a Wait-a-Thon, after all.
- We’ll announce the previous week’s Wait-a-Thon winner in the next week’s first Wait-a-Thon posting.
- You can win no more than twice.
1: Has anybody seriously considered the Apple angle with all the stuff that’s been happening on LOST? That satellite phone was iPhone-esque… Is Steve Jobs Alvar Hanzo? Or did he perhaps spend his early days studying with the DeGroots? Think about that: timeline fits, his counter-culture experimentation fits, …it all fits!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hopefully with this gift certificate I’ll be able to download enough music and movies to keep me busy until the new 3G iPhone drops!!
May 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Or instead of buying/renting movies and music you could wait and buy iPhone apps upon the 2.0 release
May 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I like the idea and I REALLY can’t wait for the Apple upcoming announcements and releases.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Yay I want $$
May 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I am so excited, I can’t wait for the new iPhone!!! Best thing since sliced bread!!
May 31st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Sweet contest.
Waiting for the new iPhone is cruel torture.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I’ve had the countdown widget since about 2 or 3 weeks ago…finally I see a single digit in the days column!
June 4th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Longest. Month. Ever.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I am hoping it will have some curve to it. Easier to rest in your hands. But either way, I can’t wait for it.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I can’t wait to see it. o the glory. Winning would be awesome too, of course.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
o the glory. Winning would be awesome too, of course.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Sweeeeeeet .. count me in
June 6th, 2008 at 2:05 am
heck ya
June 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
boy whaat I could do with $100 on Itunes please enter me thank you
June 6th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Lost and the Apple iPhone Steve Jobs connection…. thats a stretch. Stretchy Pants
June 7th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
AHH! i hope i win the $100 in itunes. I hope the new iphone is cheap.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Count me in please.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Can’t wait for 3G!! App Store will be awesome!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I am on pins and needles for the new software, Can’t wait
June 8th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I cant wait for the new iPhone I bough the 4GB when it first came out, now they don’t even make 4GB iPhones!!! I need more space and once i heard the rumor of the new iPhone i knew this was my chance to finally upgraded in space and put all of my movies and music on my iPhone!!! I really hope that this isn’t just a rumor!!!!!!!!!!
June 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I’m in also!
June 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
It’s here TODAY! I heard it on the news this morn. I see that the winners of the iTunes cards are getting them through email. I won and my name was announced above the April 10th posts but I have not received anything or heard from anyone. What’s the story guys? Hope you read this for I don’t know how to contact anyone.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Hey Daffy -
Apparently iTunes only lets you buy a certain number per day. I’ll try to put yours and a few others in later this afternoon.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Sign me up!!!!!!
June 12th, 2008 at 8:12 am
wow, the new phone is a letdown
June 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
i wish they would make a phone more shaped to your grip but i really think I will like this phone if I ever get one
June 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Waiting is stupid…
June 16th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I’m looking forward to this phone. I washed (yes, in the washing machine) my video ipod last month and am wondering it the iphone is good as a primary ipod. Any comments welcome.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
great contest idea
June 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
the iPhone can’t come soon enough
June 21st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
gimmie gimmie gimmie!
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Man i can’t wait…this is better than waiting 4 Christmas
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Please and thank you.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
They say the new iphone will be then answer to the new blackberry/wrong spelling/please forgive; that it will beat the socks off of it. Thnaks SW
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Want one.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I’m no phone geek, but the iPhone can’t get here fast enough.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Alaniss Dream
June 24th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
want
June 26th, 2008 at 9:10 am
TY 4 THE GREAT CONTEST!!!:)
June 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I need this! Can’t wait for the new I phone.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Can’t wait to get an Iphone!
June 29th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Can’t wait to get an Iphone! ty 4 the great contest!:)
June 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am
great idea to enlarge the circle of information by giving away an Ipod.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Absolutely fantastic idea for a giveaway!!! I’m in!!!
June 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
OMG!!! Perfect gift for my mum since she’s working her butt off so I can go to college! That’s so wicked cool!
June 29th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I am so excited, I can’t wait for the new iPhone!!! Best thing since sliced bread!!
June 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
A perfect gift
June 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Sweet contest.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:51 am
This is a wonderful prize. I would LOVE to win it. I would be able to buy my favorite songs and videos to play on the new Ipod I got for Christmas. Please pick me!
June 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Good Luck Everyone!
June 30th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
good luck
June 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Looking forward to switching to AT&T on the 11th for the iPhone 3G…if I can get one that day!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
This would help a lot.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:25 am
i really wanna win
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
The data plan plus the messaging plan seem pretty steep, but I guess they have got us!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 am
I can`t wait for free apps in the apps store.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I can’t wait!
July 8th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Great idea!
July 8th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Yeah, gift card! I’m suspicious of all this money you are offering though. It seems too generous. Oh well!
July 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
This is awesome
July 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I love FREE stuff but not as much as i love my iphone!! Good luck everyone