A Brit bought Apple's 10 billionth Iphone app download

THE BRITISH are considering a national holiday after they actually won an international competition.

Apparently a British buyer bought Apple's 10 billionth app download, a copy of the Paper Glider app that was also created by Brits.

Gail Davis of Orpington in Kent downloaded the Paper Glider app from Cirencester-based Iphone app developer Neon Play. As the winner of Apple's App Store 'Countdown to 10 Billion Apps', Davis will receive a $10,000 Itunes gift card.

Oli Christie, CEO of Neon Play said that it was a great piece of news for the whole Neon Play team. Paper Glider is currently the top app in the UK.

It is worth pointing out that when Apple opened its App Store in July 2008, Steve Jobs had initially said he didn't want nasty smelly outsiders to write code for his machines. He only changed his mind after he was assured that he would have total autocratic control over everything that was sold at the App Store.

The App store took off and created Jobs' Mob's infamous walled garden of delights where there is no porn, no Flash and nothing that a born again Christian from the Midwest might find offensive. A bit like a Western Saudi Arabia crossed with Disneyland.

The idea has been much copied and is being seen as crucial to the success of any smartphone.

Still the British are so bad on the international competition stage it is nice that they have won something that is not like the title of most teenage pregnancies or the most overweight people in Europe. µ