To be fair, it's ads for apps, in a store whose purpose is selling apps. It's not like they're putting ads for Jello in the Messages app.
I'm not thrilled with it either.
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Apple Announces More Ads Coming to App Store Starting Next Week
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I'm not thrilled with it either.
The quality of software is actually very high. But YMMV as always.
Yep, and more evil too, by sucking the souls of their blind userbase who believed in privacy for a long time.
Now they gathered enough user data over the last years to build up their Ad Imperium, well done.
Welp, you can't change the ways of the masses. If Apple customers think that these ads are not harmful, that is their right.
Well, if the AppStore could just look at which apps I actually use and suggest apps based on that instead of presenting me all kinds of vapid kids games and social media content creation junk tools that I simply never have or will download then maybe I’d actually see these ads.
Until then, I don’t care.
Why would I even browse the AppStore to begin with unless I already know what I’m looking for?
However, there definitely are some privacy concerns attached to this news that I can’t escape.
Until then, I don’t care.
Why would I even browse the AppStore to begin with unless I already know what I’m looking for?
However, there definitely are some privacy concerns attached to this news that I can’t escape.
More expensive everything? Despite high inflation, current U.S. iPhone prices are the same or less than they were last year and the year before. Higher prices overseas are largely due to currency value changes.
Maybe App Store advertising and excluding chargers have helped allow Apple to avoid raising iPhone prices.
Tim's doing his job of increasing profits which builds him more trust with the investors, that's what matters to him. Not you or I.
Ads won't necessarily level the playing field. Larger, wealthier companies can more easily afford to pay for advertising which means they can more easily push their products and potentially further expand their dominance.
Arrived at the point? A pay/ad hybrid model has been the norm for ages for things like newspapers, magazines, and television.
As far as streaming services go, even though Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Nettlfix, Paramount+ and others have or will soon have pay ad-supported plans, they still also have ad-free plans. No one is forced to go with ad-supported. The choice is up to the subscriber.
Is that even legal? First forcing people to use their app store by making it impossible to download apps somewhere else and then bombarding people with ads?
I hate ads. I trained myself to avoid watching even offline ads, even if they are on a huge billboard. Ads are a kind of brainwashing. It is almost impossible to delete an information that entered your brain against your will.
I hate ads. I trained myself to avoid watching even offline ads, even if they are on a huge billboard. Ads are a kind of brainwashing. It is almost impossible to delete an information that entered your brain against your will.
Every company — large and small — has customer acquisition costs. Larger companies may have a higher threshold for these costs, but this won’t stop a smaller company from advertising on the product page from the larger company. The smaller company has more to gain than the larger company, and discoverability will be cheaper for them.
I don't know how to explain this more clearly but your logic here is flawed.
Super Bowl ads for example are what $5 million these days for 30 seconds? It'd be pretty freaking hard for a small up-and-coming company to advertise during that game. But a large company can do it without blinking. If Apple charges a high ad-rate for this prime real estate, its gonna be hard for a small developer to pay that cost, compared to a large developer.
Well true, what I said is my opinion on the software, as what you are saying is as well. What alternative software are you comparing it to when you say that the quality of software is very low?
How do you define very high? There are bugs on bugs on bugs. Yes, they eventually get most of them taken care of but I wouldn’t call bricking devices with firmware or OS updates high quality software.
That's not how ads work. People buy stuff they've heard of. So that in the future when you're in the supermarket, looking at racks of nearly identical floor cleaners, you'll pick a brand you think you're familiar with over one you don't recognise. Same with restaurants. Same with computers. Same with phones.
Pretty sure we all know how ads and brand recognition works out here in 2022, lol.
I mentioned Google Maps and Waze. For example if I type in a location for a Mexican restaurant and start heading there, at a stop sign Waze will pop up ads and show me an ad for Taco Bells in the vicinity. Google Maps has done something similar. In that scenario, I'm not trying to navigate to a different location that paid for ad placement based on my driving location and search term.
It’s the same with prior iOS updates for the first release…there is always something and there is always a mixed bag. But in general apple gets this stuff sorted out and that is why imo, the quality is high.
It wasn’t disastrous imo. It’s similar to other first releases.
Are you going to continue to do business with a greedy company?