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Just a reminder for everyone reminiscing
Those were for third party Apps, it should be noted.
Apple themselves doing ADs is the really objectionable part to me.
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Ads Coming Soon to Apple Maps
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Those were for third party Apps, it should be noted.
Apple themselves doing ADs is the really objectionable part to me.
I do not care whether the ad is full-screen or the size of a • . I do not want to be followed by Apple in any form or function when I go somewhere and specify a destination. Don’t sell me privacy, Apple, only to intrude it. I paid premium $$$ for your hardware — I am a customer, not a product.
This is what Apple’s retiring Chief Ensh… Officer would have have said at the September event:
We are thrilled to announce that advertisements are coming to Apple Maps. Ads tailored to the chosen destinations will enrich your navigational experience in ways never seen before. This is the best version of Spam —eh, sorry, accidental backwards spelling — Maps we ever released. We think our shareholders are gonna love it.
And this should be applauded. More people should reject funding companies that don’t make products that work the way they like.
Isn’t this a setting that the user controls? So that those power users in the know can see the content uncensored?
EDIT: Not now, anyway. I thought sure that I found the option before and just decided to leave it as is. Guess not.
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“I remember when Steve didn’t stand in front of a crowd telling them about iAd” 😀
Just a reminder for everyone reminiscing
We’d have to see if a huge number of people returned their vehicles, though. It’s one thing to complain loudly about a thing that happened, but if BMW’s profits only go up, then what they’ve learned is “Do more ad opportunities with big movies”.It backfired for car manufacturers already. Why not learn the lesson?
BMW owners outraged by ‘Spider-Man’ ads that popped up on their dashboard screens: ‘We need adblocker for cars’
The full-screen animation — delivered through BMW’s main Control Display — triggered an immediate backlash from drivers.nypost.com
Why Automakers Are Ditching Apple CarPlay: a $625 Billion Opportunity in In-Car Advertising
Your car knows you’re hungry—the aim plan to put sponsored ads on your car’s infotainment screen, giving automakers a lucrative revenue stream.www.autoweek.com
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You do realize that Apple LITERALLY does follow you everywhere, right? They can’t give you directions to “there” from “here” if they don’t know where “here” is. And, even if you manually enter both ends of the route, they can show you when you need to turn right if they don’t know where you are.
This reminds me of my friend who wanted to know why they couldn’t get maps to give them directions and I reminded them that they turned off Location Services because they didn’t want to be tracked. 🙂
No worries, Ternus will most definitely be on stage to tell folks about the amazing ad experiences in Apple Maps. 🙂 You won’t miss the experience.
A subscription requires your consent. Apple would never take route with Maps. With Ads you are no longer a customer with a choice — you are a product.
Moot for me anyway because I do not watch the events anymore since they turned into a series of uninterrupted Apple ads. If Ternus brings back the original format, I will return.
In any case, I doubt he will address the update to Maps because the focus of Apple events is on new product and innovation, on existing product improvement rather than deterioration.
The perception of intrusion vs. non-intrusion could be influenced by the absence or presence of shareholder status.
sleep/to/dream
macrumors demi-goddess
In a major city, in the modern day, it would be extremely cumbersom to use physical maps. Obviously not having live traffic information with rerouting would be huge, and for a city like Los Angeles, I would need to sit down with a map every time i go somewhere new, and if there's any construction or major traffic we'd be screwed
Maps isn't a product, the phone is a product. Maps is a service, that runs off of servers and needs a constant influx of updated information that needs to be processed, and the software needs to be kept up to date.
Perhaps the cost was built into the price of devices before, but with AI raising hardware costs, and likely the costs of the servers they're using for it, maybe that's not the case anymore and they'd rather put ads in Maps than raise the price of the phone another $100 🤷🏻♀️
What would be nice is if Apple made an ad-free tier for Maps that's standalone or bundled with Apple One.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Nonetheless it’s still a subjective evaluation with opinions influenced by general bias of the company, management and overall performance and policies.
It’s not about Apple Maps. I don’t use it very often. It is the general direction of their products. When the corporate direction goes from “Let’s make the best products for our customer.” to “Let’s make the best products for our corporate interests.” then I am no longer interested in their products.
And the next step will be???
Al those people who hate those commercials will let themselves hear.
Then Apple will come with a "solution". If you pay us each month, a very small amount, we will remove these commercials.
That "very small" amount, of course, will be raised once or twice a year.
The oldest trick in the "money grabbers" book.
Al those people who hate those commercials will let themselves hear.
Then Apple will come with a "solution". If you pay us each month, a very small amount, we will remove these commercials.
That "very small" amount, of course, will be raised once or twice a year.
The oldest trick in the "money grabbers" book.
steve62388
macrumors 68040
I'd be surprised if jailbreaking would prevent Apple Maps from showing ads, it would be baked into the code of the app itself.
steve62388
macrumors 68040
They'll probably demand that other ad companies can insert their own ads into the Maps app. 😛
… and before Maps was “enriched” with ads, the bakery that popped up on the top of the list was the closest one. And now it’ll be the bakery who paid most/had better reviews, I assume.
If the EU is ad friendly, then the US is ad obsessed.
Ad companies other than … ?? Can’t be Apple because they are not an ad company. Any business meeting Apple’s Maps app ad policy can create an account and buy Maps app ads space.