Comments on: I hate 13-year olds

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:51:45 +0000

I am from connecticut, and you are actually… incredibly accurate about us people from Connecticut

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:38:50 +0000

@Keira – Parents can set up (prepaid?) accounts for their kids, and anyone can use an iTunes gift card.

And let’s be honest: this could’ve been an 80-year old retired teacher and grandmother from Ames, Iowa, and we’d still be pissed at her because she won and we didn’t!! (Damn old biddies…)

By: Keira

Keira — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:48:21 +0000

This kid should not have won. Don’t you have to be over 18 to own a credit/debit card and be able to make purchases online? Why does this brat even have a bank account? He’s 13!

The prize should have been awarded to someone else who would actually make use of it, not some punk kid who should be doing his homework and not messing about on the internet or talking to his gay little friends on his iPhone.

We never had mobile phones when we were 13, they were reserved for very rich yuppy businessmen types who could afford them. Now every toddler has a sodding mobile phone.

When this generation of bratty kids grows up, human civilisation as we know it will end.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:28:07 +0000

Seriously, i also had the impression that you enter a drawing, and not the way that the kid won, just being the one billionth downloader.
otherwise, whats the point of giving you the 25 free application forms per day?????
i lost so much of my precious time to fill up as many forms as i could, millions of places before we would hit the one billion. thats surely misleading, so that 13-years-old punk gets his cheapest gift of the day…

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:24:04 +0000

Poor MBP is probably going to be excecuted on Connors super sweet 16 when daddy buys him a gold plated updated version all the while my MacBook is slowly falling to pieces,
Grrr

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:09:05 +0000

As one who lives in (not Weston) Connecticut, I can tell you that this is a town where 13-year olds hire other kids to manage their paper routes. Which helps explain how anyone could give an iPhone (or even touch) to a teen.

I wonder the chance this kid will donate any of his prizes to help charities in nearby Bridgeport, barely 10 miles away? Connecticut’s largest and poorest city.

By: darrell

darrell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:31:32 +0000

i bet he’s not even a kid. we’ve got case of identity theft and that disease that gary coleman has.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:21:01 +0000

Oh i do think its a shame that a 13 year old won all that stuff because he won’t use it, but I’m just jealous and wish that when i was 13 I would have won a prize like that. Good for him. Can’t believe this was blog worthy.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:34:17 +0000

AMEN!

By: Tyson Junkers

Tyson Junkers — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:24:38 +0000

I never new that the person who downloads the billionth app wins… I thought if you downloaded an app in general during the last week or so you where entered into a drawing… But really apple should have thought twice about letting the kid win! Nobody would have noticed had they given it to someone else. I understand he was the 1,000,000,000 downloader, but he’s 13 years old!?!?! Come on Apple! Stop making stupid decisions when the Steve isn’t around!