Can we go back to the old App Store design where it didn't have ads or those useless "Stories" that have the artwork of someone attempting to draw a human but failed at every level?
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Apple Begins Showing More Ads in App Store
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LMFAO gotta love that corporate art style
I really dislike how these ads are showing up. This is becoming just a little closer to the Android experience.
Remember when Windows machines had those "Intel inside" stickers and other stickers? These were advertising agreements or something like that with the producers of those chips and what not. This is beginning to feel more like that.
Does Apple really need to monetize in this way? SMH.
Remember when Windows machines had those "Intel inside" stickers and other stickers? These were advertising agreements or something like that with the producers of those chips and what not. This is beginning to feel more like that.
Does Apple really need to monetize in this way? SMH.
soon ads in Music, TV+, Home/Lock Screen, iMessage, Photos, Weather, Calculator, Clock, Settings
"We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures, so picture this..." - Nolan Sorrento
If Steam was allowed to distribute mobile games on iOS we'd have so many better games on iOS/iPadOS.
When will they start popping up on lock/home? Although I haven't seen that on my Flip. Is it because it's a decent manufacturer, or because I don't tap on BS?
I am ambivalent on this. I don’t go to the app store to browse apps; I go when someone tells me about an app and I want to download it. I bypass the front page and just search using the search on my phone in command center and it takes me right by it. So tl;dr, “meh”
Hmm...I'd say a "meh" doesn't equate to "ambivalent". It equates to "I don't care" which is way more definitive than ambivalence
They see Amazon over there having people pay them for the privilege of shopping there and are saying "hmm..."
And meanwhile of course the Amazon website has become one of the most ad-ridden sites on the internet.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Steve Jobs once introduce the App Store as having no ads and that was a feature of the store?
I'm gonna go full on "if Steve were still around" and say that right about now (or years ago) he'd be writing an open letter called "thoughts on ads" and put a rest to these shenanigans.
I think Steve would object and the reason is because it detracts from the Apple experience by cheapening it. So now, every "street corner" in the App store there's a hawker selling their wares by loudly proclaiming "LOOK AT ME!" That's cheap.
Maybe so, but now the current leadership is seemingly trying to make his remains spin more rapidly than ever in their grave. Gotta generate that “clean energy” somehow
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It would be one thing if the App Store weren't riddled with so much crap. I think the quoted developer makes a good point that this is just a way to extract more money from app developers by forcing them to advertise. There's already a supposedly algorithmically selected list of similar apps at the bottom of app listings. Seems shady to advertise a competitor's app when someone specifically searched out yours.
I honestly appreciate your attention to semantics! I think I’m probably closer to meh then ambivalent. Let me settle on apathetic.Hmm...I'd say a "meh" doesn't equate to "ambivalent". It equates to "I don't care" which is way more definitive than ambivalence
I came over to Apple from Android a couple of years ago. Every time I bemoan the fact that IOS is not as good as Android, I remember I came over because of privacy concerns and so forth. With CSAM and now ads, I might as well go back to the superior Mobile OS.
I don't think CSAM has been implemented at all. Fair enough about the ads situation.
And there’s one of the long-standing reasons: wasting our bandwidth to market at us. Just like when marketing jerks used to fax ads to people, it consumes someone else’s resources.
Advertising is a cancer on society.
