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Apple Announces More Ads Coming to App Store Starting Next Week
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don’t even care ; never be longer than 15 seconds on apple store to download any app i already researched
really hope this is just in app store, and i think there were adds in app store anyways.
Blocking adds is not right thing to do, most websites and service providers depend on adds for revenue.
Example Macrumors would close down if every one blocks adds, no ine will pay to read macrumors.
on Mobile devices game developers providing games for free would loose revenue.
I do like the idea of Apple giving more control on what information to share with each app, so that people can decide what is right for them.
I see adds in Macbook pro when i open macrumors in safari, where is my free macbook pro ?
What products do you upgrade every year ?
i upgrade my iPhone every 4 years.
this website makes money from adds, if there were no adds on this website would you be willing to pay to read/comment on macrumors ?
You can thank shareholders for this. Apple has to keep revenues increasing to keep them happy. Just the way it works.
I've long justified my investment in the apple ecosystem because their business model wasn't centered on advertising, and making their customers the product. It was a "buy the thing, own the thing" situation (in as much as a platform dependent on innovation and software can be).
It was for this reason that I tolerated Siri for smart home voice commands, which remains a country mile behind Google, I explicitly don't like being a product.
I dislike advertising with such fervor that I use pfsense with ad host blocking for pi hole listed hosts, ad blockers, prevent my smart TV from having access to the internet, and completely sold out of the Samsung ecosystem explicitly for this reason.
It was for this reason that I guided my friends and family in this direction too.
If iCloud+ doesn't exclude me from this ********, I'm not certain where I'll turn, but it will be away from Apple.
It was for this reason that I tolerated Siri for smart home voice commands, which remains a country mile behind Google, I explicitly don't like being a product.
I dislike advertising with such fervor that I use pfsense with ad host blocking for pi hole listed hosts, ad blockers, prevent my smart TV from having access to the internet, and completely sold out of the Samsung ecosystem explicitly for this reason.
It was for this reason that I guided my friends and family in this direction too.
If iCloud+ doesn't exclude me from this ********, I'm not certain where I'll turn, but it will be away from Apple.
There are ads on the Apple News and Apple Stocks App then eventually Apple Maps.
Slippery slope. But things could be worse. Some of you bright young things won’t know about the sorry state of early DVD movie releases, where they forced you to watch adverts at the beginning. No skipping over those trailers, matey. Luckily, mine are all in landfill now. If I still had them, those forced trailers of dim and distant movies would just drive me nuts.
It's annoying to pay for Apple News+ and still see ads everywhere. I had the Wall Street Journal for years and that was a huge advertisement as well.
Apple could increase revenue by doing what it used to be good at doing: bringing actual innovation. Sadly for many years has been releasing unimaginative products, that often were almost identical to their predecessors with improvements that are marginal to say the least (see the ‘new’ iPad Pro, iPhone 14, Apple Watch 8… ). Over time this is causing a decrease in profits that in turn is pushing apple to look for money elsewhere (ads), even if it goes against the whole privacy smokescreen and it cheapens the brand. What’s next, ads in the lockscreen or perhaps in the notch 2.0 (the so-called ‘dynamic island)?
Thanks for the great suggestions. Will definitely look into those.
Do you think those will work with things like the App Store, where the ads will be more or less baked into the application straight from Apple who's also controlling the device OS?
Same, i only go there to update apps and use search to find the app I want to download.
Honestly all Ads on the App Store are contextual ads. Meaning ads for apps. So yeah, I'm okay with that.
Ads are the death of the apstore
As a a lone developer all it does is concentrate power in the hands of whichever company has more marketing $$$ instead of the app that is best.
As if AppStore search isn’t broken and manipulated enough already, we don’t need more ads.
AppStore should be a meritocracy.
As a a lone developer all it does is concentrate power in the hands of whichever company has more marketing $$$ instead of the app that is best.
As if AppStore search isn’t broken and manipulated enough already, we don’t need more ads.
AppStore should be a meritocracy.
And that's exactly the problem. Most ads these days are disguised as recommendations or reviews, AppStore included. It's not that clear who is on main page thanks to quality, and who is there because they paid the money. This will be particularly bad when in comes to Maps and searching for food etc.
Apple is a backwards company looking ahead without one.