Gail Davis is the woman from Great Britain to whom Apple will give an iTunes Gift Card worth $10.000 for downloading the 10 billionth app from the iTunes AppStore. In reality, it was not Gail who downloaded the application, but one of her daughters, who yesterday morning had downloaded several applications from the AppStore, including Paper Glider, which was actually the chosen winning application. Gail was called by an Apple vice president who explained what she had won, but the woman thought it was a prank and hung up the phone. After she realized that everything explained to her was real, she tried to contact Apple again, but met an operator from a call center who did not help her at all. Finally, a few hours later, another vice president of Apple called her again and this time the woman accepted the award without any hesitation.
"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. The girls came down and said it wasn't a prank, Davis explains. I had a moment of panic. 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. If it had been Steve Jobs I definitely would have thought it was a wind up, said Davis. I was hugely relieved, says Davis. I was getting really worried."
The woman's story was obtained exclusively by cultofmac. To be honest, it seems like a story worthy of such a record and I hope that the people who took the interview did not "inflate" the stories.
