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Advertisments on iTunes to Discount Prices?

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GOD NO!!!!!

iTunes is one of the most successful music stores in the business. Why fix that which isn't broken?! If iTunes puts in ads lets hope they make an equally "smart" decision and allow people to return their purchases so that I can return every song, TV show, and movie that I have ever bought!

Although I would be pacified if it gave me dirt-free over the air iTunes music downloads on my iPhone... Are you listening, Apple? ;)
 
I only see this as negative if true. Once ads roll in for one place, then maybe they would be used in another place here or another place over there. I think the real reason for possibly using ads is due to the fact that Universal (and other rumored record companies) want Apple to charge for their content, but Apple wants to keep the price at $.99. Apple can keep the price the same, if they receive revenue from other areas, ADs.

KEEP iTUNES AD FREE!!!!!
 
Advertisements? In my iTunes?

You uh, you sayin you want a piece of me? Is that what you're sayin? What is that you want? You want a piece of me?

Why I oughta...
 
This sounds fine to me, as long as the discounted TV shows with embedded ads are also available in a regularly-priced format without ads, too. And as long as the ones without ads remain at their current price. People can then decide which format they want.
 
No advertisement appeal

Apple, offering clean, simple, elegant products and interfaces is what makes you so classy! Please don't allow your products and interfaces to become cluttered with ads! :apple:
 
Why do this? Are they trying to make people not want to use iTunes? Throwing advertisements in is going to drive people away from iTunes.

Next they can throw in some advertisements on the iPod and iPhone so we are forced to hear them before we listen or watch something. Apple should just be happy with whatever money they make from iTunes right now.
 
Ads would suck. I don't mind paying the current prices, especially if it means not having to look at ads. The ads are why I only watch shows from iTunes to begin with.
 
"Just one question for everyone out there: Has anyone every bought anything that they saw in an online ad? Or clicked on an online ad? I never have. For me online ads are just annoying. I don't pay them any attention."

This is very true, in over a decades worth of surfing, i can safely say I have not bought a single item because of an internet ad. My mind blanks them off.
 
If you really think about it, Apple already has their some ads in the iTunes store. Just look at the "Just for you" feature, and the rest of the subtle "ads" and you'll see they're ads, in one way or another, but still are.
Now, if they start adding 3rd party ads, that would get REALLY annoying - I think it would piss a lot of people off, myself included. I don't buy a lot of stuff off the iTunes store - I still purchase CDs - but the few singles I buy would be gone if there's an ad in one of them.
 
The Worst Idea...

That is the one of the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas.

Right up there with taking dinosaurs off that island.
 
I just watched this evening on my :apple:TV a Jeff Foxworthy show that was free from iTunes and at the end, was an ad for the DVDs. I guess I don't mind as the show was free anyways.

But, if we have to pay for the show and have ads... :mad:
 
I don't get why people are so against advertisement. If some company wants to pay for me to watch a video I'm all for that.

Besides, Apple may have to start doing this and make their TV shows free or they aren't going to be able to compete. All the networks show full episodes of TV shows for free on their websites now. Why should we pay for them when we can watch them for free any time we want? And there aren't a ton of ads either, I think ABC shows like 3 30 second ads during an hour long show, I can live with that. I also believe that ABC shows them in higher resolution than you can get on iTunes and I heard that they are going to start showing them in HD.

Apple needs to change something. I won't pay for a TV show when I can get it in better quality for free and I'm sure there are a lot of people that feel the same way.
 
gifford said:
"Just one question for everyone out there: Has anyone every bought anything that they saw in an online ad? Or clicked on an online ad? I never have. For me online ads are just annoying. I don't pay them any attention."

This is very true, in over a decades worth of surfing, i can safely say I have not bought a single item because of an internet ad. My mind blanks them off.
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I've done it once or twice, and the items were pretty good.

You gotta actually pay attention to the ads. Sometimes you can get good deals.

MacPossum said:
QFE. iTunes doesn't need to be swamped down by adds. I'll pay the current prices to keep adds out.
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But would you pay more? Obviously, the current price isn't enough.
 
stinks

So lets see... I buy Apple hardware, buy the OS, use their music store to buy music, and for some reason that wouldn't be enough? They want to make a few extra bucks off of me after all that?

To me, the advantage of actually PAYING for things is to avoid advertisements. For example, some things are free, and you see, watch, or listen to advertisements to help pay for them. For example, I pay for OS X, so my weather widget doesn't have advertisements. OTOH, if I go to weather.com, I see advertisements because I'm not funding weather.com in any other way.

Unless iTMS starts giving away music, you can GUARANTEE that any future revenue they make of advertising eventually won't be passed along to the consumer.

It is just like government passing a new tax for some supposed specific reason. After a few years it is just part of the overall income for the government. It is like in FL where the state lottery was introduced to benefit education. Well, guess what- they used the tax money the ordinarily would have spent on education for other purposes while leaving the education funding the same.
 
irun5k said:
Unless iTMS starts giving away music, you can GUARANTEE that any future revenue they make of advertising eventually won't be passed along to the consumer.
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From the article:

...the ads would be delivered on content whose price has "been artificially depressed to reflect such revenue." (ie. discounted)
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arn
 
I would *not* want to see ads. I'd pay not to have them.

Do not do this Apple. iTunes is a program on our computer. You can advertise the music on the main iTunes page and some Apple products, but not third party stuff. Please! We want a clean experience.
 
powerbook911 said:
I would *not* want to see ads. I'd pay not to have them.
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You all need to get some perspective here. Apple will almost certainly not replace a successful business model with an entirely ad supported model. But I think you fail to realize the flexibility of this.

Are you saying you would pay $9.99 for a movie instead of

$6.99 for a movie with ads?
$3.99 for a movie with ads?
$0.00 for a movie with ads?

Would you pay $1.99 for a TV show instead of

$.99 for a TV show with ads?
$.49 for a TV show with ads?
$.00 for a TV show with ads?

Regardless, I'm sure Apple will let you buy the full price ad-less versions still.

arn
 
Don't like it. iTunes' pricing is simple, you know that you'll get an album for $9.99. Adding different options starts to get confusing.

The DRM-free stuff is about as complicated as I think pricing should get.
 
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