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TapSense Announces Platform to Bring Contextual Ads to Apple Watch [Updated]
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Actually this is NOT true. Look at Mac OS X. Apple just repackaged BSD UNIT that they got for free. It is a free operating system that Apple just used.
The Apache web server, linux and all of Libre Office. All free with no ads.
Only the low end small scale stuff is supported by ads the best and biggest free software projects are done never supported with ads
Henry Blodget and Business Insider are treating this as if it's officially endorsed/supported by Apple. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but it's still maddening as people hear about it and think if they buy an Watch they're automatically going to be spammed with ads. 
I seem to recall hearing that roughly 99% of people have no interest in any given ad, and that advertisers know that. They're not paying to have their ad displayed to you. They're paying to have their ad displayed to the 1% who will respond to the ad. The issue is they don't know who is/isn't interested, so the disinterested 99% have to suffer through it.
Hard to do with t.v. I do turn off the sound when commercials come on and do something else for 2 - 2.30 minutes.
Well, if a company will give me a free Apple Watch in exchange for having to tap out of ads every now and then, I may be for it. Otherwise, keep it the hell away from me.
The secondary edge-to-edge screen on the Apple Watch is exclusively reserved for the ads, regular apps use the regular screen with the black border!
Seriously though, this is an app NOT meant for installation.
I can't see Apple allowing something to take control of the whole display and put an Ad when you're not in an app. If it's just an in-app ad, then it's business as usual, but if it's on the home screen, that's disturbing.
>Only the low end small scale stuff is supported by ads the best and biggest free software projects are done >never supported with ads
That describes about 99% of the Apple App Store content. And those "small scale stuff" is what make iOS so popular.
So if you are a developer with an idea for an app (small scale stuff), how do you make money if the end product is free and contain no ads? Do you run an ads that asks for donation?
The "free" codes that you talked about are written by developers many of whom were paid by companies for work they do, and these companies run ads. So in the end you are actually paying for the free software by watching those ads.
Just don't install Firefox!
By the way, I'd personally go for FreeBSD instead. It's faster, and the GNU license ticks me off.
I think this would be the target audience:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wGR-NFsT--/wbr4395lfobej5evx4i1.jpg
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wGR-NFsT--/wbr4395lfobej5evx4i1.jpg
Soon every morning I wake up I'll have to see something like this. Pleaseeee no!
"Apply for a Gold Credit Card for free*! It is life-changing! *Conditions Apply.
Oh and by the way in other trivial news you have 3 new notifications!"
"Apply for a Gold Credit Card for free*! It is life-changing! *Conditions Apply.
Oh and by the way in other trivial news you have 3 new notifications!"
This changes everything
This new advertising scheme has completely changed my perspective on the Apple Watch. I have gone from really wanting one to never in a million years would I buy a product that will push unwanted ads in my face when I am trying to use it.
This new advertising scheme has completely changed my perspective on the Apple Watch. I have gone from really wanting one to never in a million years would I buy a product that will push unwanted ads in my face when I am trying to use it.
Some would say that the stupid people are those who think it is acceptable for ads to be everywhere. A sick society that doesn't know it's sick is very sick indeed.