“It’s not often someone is told they are one in a billion. But for 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of [Weston, Connecticut], the news was sweeter than apple pie,” Kimberly Donnelly reports for The Weston Forum.
“Connor learned last week that he is the grand prize winner of Apple computer’s Billion App Countdown contest, netting him a bushel-full of Apple swag: He will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch [32GB], a Time Capsule and a [17-inch] MacBook Pro.”
“Connor actually plans to share the iTunes with his family, which includes his brother Brendan, 12, and sister Shannon, 9,” Donnelly reports. “It’s only fair, he said, because they were all participating in the Billion App Countdown over the last several weeks. Connor and Brendan downloaded applications onto their iPhones (they both saved up to buy them), and Shannon downloaded some onto the iPod touch she got for Christmas. ‘We downloaded a lot of applications,’ Connor said. ‘A lot.'”
“Ms. Mulcahey said the phone was ringing when she was bringing groceries inside last week. She hurriedly picked it up and was told her son had won Apple’s Billion App Countdown contest. ‘I said, ‘I’m, sorry, I don’t believe you,’ and I hung up,’ Ms. Mulcahey said,” Donnelly reports. “The person from Apple tried to call back several times, ‘but I wouldn’t let Shannon answer it. I figured it was a scam. We’ve become such skeptics,’ she said.”
“But the folks at Apple were persistent, and they sent several e-mail messages to the Mulcahey’s Apple account,” Donnelly reports. “When his mother told Connor when he got home from school, ‘I immediately believed it. I trust Apple,’ he said.”
“Connor is sharing the prizes with his family. Everyone will get to use the iTunes account and the Time Capsule, a wireless external hard drive and WiFi base station with about 500 gigabytes of storage space that will work with both Macintosh computers and PCs,” Donnelly reports.
“His mother will get the iPod touch, and will in turn pass her older iPod along to someone else,” Donnelly reports. “As for the MacBook Pro laptop, Connor gets to have that, but his brother and sister will now get to share Connor’s practically new MacBook, his pride and joy that he had saved his money for more than a year to buy.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Not only does Connor have more than wee bit of the luck o’ the Irish, he’s obviously a very smart kid.
