Apple on Friday revealed that Connor Mulcahey, a 13 year-old from Weston, Connecticut, as the winner of its billion app countdown contest. He downloaded Bump (which allows users to send contact information between iPhones) –the App Store’s billionth download, to his iPhone.

Apple awards Mulcahey a MacBook laptop, an iPod Touch, an Apple Time Capsule backup system and a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

Connor said he learned he won through an e-mail sent to his iPhone on Thursday as he was on the way home from baseball practice. The vice president of iTunes had written him personally to congratulate him.

Apple had apparently tried to call his home first, Connor said, “But my mom pretty much said, ‘I don’t believe you,’ and hung up.

“I was pretty surprised, but I felt sorry for all those other people who tried hard to win.”

Congratulations, Connor!

[via Courant]