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Apple Begins Showing More Ads in App Store

dysamoria said:
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.
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very good point! Excellent!

I hate those ads and don't want them on my phone.
 
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CarAnalogy said:
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.
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I think you'd mostly likely be wrong. Many seem to forget (or aren't old enough to remember) Steve introduced iAds. It turned out to be a colossal failure due to initial outrageous buy-in cost. Jobs overestimated what businesses would be willing to pay to data mine Apple users. Apple then did a 180 and took a page from Andrew Lewis' if it's free, you're the product. I think it's a fair assumption that a successful iAds campaign would have created a different Apple... one more akin to Google that some would like.

I said it in a post a year or two ago. Apple is going to treat it's customers like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water. Heat (ads) turned up slowly over time so the frog doesn't realize it's being boiled. As evidenced by some of the quotes in this thread, a few people are okay with the water getting a little warmer.😂
 
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Apple has designed Apple the app store so that if you're on manual app updates you see the app store front. However if I notice the blue Ad sign I skip it, and don't even look at it. I assume many do the same.
 
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"If we do this a little bit by little bit they will accept it. Some will be mad, but they aren't going anywhere. Most will not even notice... or care. We'll even have a few who will try to excuse and justify it. Point is, we are going to be able to continue expanding our advertising efforts because bit by bit, they'll accept anything."
- some Ad guy presenting to Cook and the Executive Committee probably

I jest, but this is going to continue unabated. Apple has realized that increasing advertising in an incremental and methodical way is going to result in general acceptance by their customers and a crap ton of additional revenue and profit. They know you'll learn to love being the product.
 
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dysamoria said:
I can’t suppress awareness. I have absolutely zero tolerance for advertising.
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I'm not giving this a pass but at least it is app advertisements in an app store, so at least they make sense. Something makes me think that the ads coming to maps will be a bit... less focused? I don't want to see ads for McDs just because I am walking by one on my way to another destination, even if Apple thinks I'm hungry.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
The scary part is it will be implemented in Apple Maps in the near future. Imagine using GPS navigation and you get bombarded with some stupid Ad.

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#Say NO to Ads!
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Ads to me in the App Store are neither here nor there, Apple Maps is different. Regarding AM and CarPlay anything that diverts attention from the task at hand is potentially dangerous.
 
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69Mustang said:
I think you'd mostly likely be wrong. Many seem to forget (or aren't old enough to remember) Steve introduced iAds. It turned out to be a colossal failure due to initial outrageous buy-in cost. Jobs overestimated what businesses would be willing to pay to data mine Apple users. Apple then did a 180 and took a page from Andrew Lewis' if it's free, you're the product. I think it's a fair assumption that a successful iAds campaign would have created a different Apple... one more akin to Google that some would like.

I said it in a post a year or two ago. Apple is going to treat it's customers like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water. Heat (ads) turned up slowly over time so the frog doesn't realize it's being boiled. As evidenced by some of the quotes in this thread, a few people are okay with the water getting a little warmer.😂
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I'm old enough but I don't recall iAd. I looked it up and still don't recall it, but nevertheless, what I found on Wikipedia indicates this is advertising within the applications that are sold in the App store. That's different than ads in the App store.
Similar to AdMob, iAd facilitates integrating advertisements into applications sold on the iOS App Store.[5] If the user tapped on an iAd banner, a full-screen advertisement appeared within the application, unlike other ads that would send the user into the Safari web browser. Ads were promised to be more interactive than on other advertising services, and users were able to close them at any time, returning to where they left their app. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd )
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msackey said:
I'm old enough but I don't recall iAd. I looked it up and still don't recall it, but nevertheless, what I found on Wikipedia indicates this is advertising within the applications that are sold in the App store. That's different than ads in the App store.
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You're arguing an entirely different, and apologies, but mostly irrelevant point. The differences between iAds style and current ads is irrelevant. The argument was Steve Jobs was somehow against ads. He wasn't.
There's plenty of information on the web about the rise and subsequent fall of iAds. The initial buy started at a reported $1 million dollars. Not enough customers participated and the minimum buy went from a million to $500K to $400 to $100K to increasingly smaller amounts until it was taken out back and put out of its misery. It was an unmitigated failure. Regardless of it's lack of success, Jobs wasn't averse to ads and monetizing customers. That was the point.
 
Absolute travesty.
 

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DinkThifferent said:
October has been a bad month for Apple. Disappointing new iPads with huge price increases (here in Europe), now price increases for Apple services, buggy iPad OS release and now more ads in iOS.
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Apple didn't raise the prices. They are inverting the relationship of their profit margins with your governments' inability to stabilize your currencies and VATs. Blame your government. The dollar is surprisingly doing swimmingly. It could be doing better if our government would get its act together! Our Apple prices have not increased (save for services this week).
 
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BuddyTronic said:
No kidding right? So many other feature requests and bugs and stuff, and this advert thing is probably perfectly coded.
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Seriously!?!? It was already coded and active in the App Store as product page. They just posted "Ad" in the square with the content and feature it differently.
 
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Maybe I’m holding my iPad or iPhone wrong😁

Opened App Store on my iPad and iPhone today just for checking out how much ads Apple have “ruined” my idevices.
but actually I can’t find any ads in App Store.
There is no ads on the ”today”, or under “games” or “apps”.
Only time I see an ad is when I’m searching for a game or app. Then I see one ad, and only one.
But one ad has been there the last couple of years, so no more ads than usual.

Using iPad OS 15.7 and iOS 15.7 and lives in Sweden, Europe, so maybe that’s why🤔

Edit; i just wanted to say that I fell sorry for you people that experiencing/having more ads in App Store.
I think Apple is doing a wrong move here with this. Maybe this will hit back to Apple in the future.
 
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MrSkoTA said:
Apple didn't raise the prices. They are inverting the relationship of their profit margins with your governments' inability to stabilize your currencies and VATs. Blame your government. The dollar is surprisingly doing swimmingly. It could be doing better if our government would get its act together! Our Apple prices have not increased (save for services this week).
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Actually they did by around £100 on iPhones, £1 on services... That's in my country and also in some other European countries I've been told.
 
69Mustang said:
You're arguing an entirely different, and apologies, but mostly irrelevant point. The differences between iAds style and current ads is irrelevant. The argument was Steve Jobs was somehow against ads. He wasn't.
There's plenty of information on the web about the rise and subsequent fall of iAds. The initial buy started at a reported $1 million dollars. Not enough customers participated and the minimum buy went from a million to $500K to $400 to $100K to increasingly smaller amounts until it was taken out back and put out of its misery. It was an unmitigated failure. Regardless of it's lack of success, Jobs wasn't averse to ads and monetizing customers. That was the point.
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Ah ok. That’s not my point.

Of course Jobs was not against monetizing customers. I don’t disagree with that. There’s the App Store which is a whole shebang of monetizing customers.

Apple operates within capitalism. Of course it’s monetizing customers!
 
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