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Apple Blocks Bloom.fm iAd Advertising Ahead of U.K. iTunes Radio Launch
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iOS ads are in the end software that runs on your iOS device. iOS ads could crash, or do nasty things. Therefore there is quality control, just as for iOS applications. If an iAd doesn't pass the quality control, then Apple is fully justified in rejecting it.
Of course we are not told _why_ this advertisement is blocked.
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That shouldn't be a reason for rejecting an advertisement. If Apple thinks cars of Brand A are better than cars of Brand B, that shouldn't be a reason to reject ads for Brand B.
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They have a bloom.fm app on the App Store that you can download for free.
So, Apple used to allow advertisements for Microsoft and IBM on their Macs in the 80s and 90s? I didn't realize that.
No amount of opinions on macrumors is going to affect any decisions made at Apple; they consult themselves on their own product's design, not the public with a view to be aired. Long may it continue this way; if Apple were swayed by every single person's view on what they did, they wouldn't be Apple - calm, focused and designing products according to *their* vision - a vision I trust infinitely more than Joe Public's.
So, Apple used to allow advertisements for Microsoft and IBM on their Macs in the 80s and 90s? I didn't realize that.
how does this work. you pick a comment and try to give a nonsense answer totally unrelated to the original comment?
Based on your logic, Apple never broke the law? Never settled and never been fined hundreds of millions of dollars?
I don't get what you mean by hyperbole. Doesn't make sense given the context.
In the normal, everyday world, a business does not help their competitors. It would be unreasonable to expect Apple to advertise for a rival. But if Apple doesn't do this, they are Big Brother? This is confounding.
If Apple would invent the cure for cancer, they'd be bashed for it. 'They knew about it 2 months ago and waited for a press release to announce it. Look at all the people who died in the past 2 months!' It's beyond ridiculous.
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You can't respond since what you said made no sense given the context. So you attack the person who responded, real mature there.
My father's brother's best friend's Uncle's half-son knows someone who worked as a janitor at Apple and she said they all are told to spend at least 30 minutes a day looking for inspiration and direction on Internet forums!
I think the recording industry has proven that you don't own jack, even if you think you do. All of them are thieves.
I think Google have gotten into legal trouble for promoting their own services in search results. Then again Apple isn't really much of a player in advertising.
The news story about blocking them generates more buzz then if they would have just left them alone & ignored it.
I do wish all the people who claim MacRumors is full of biased Apple fanatics would read threads like this. This really is nothing but an unsubstantiated rumor based on a tweet by an Apple competitor and everyone has jumped in assuming it's true, and wondering if it might even be criminal.
Who knows what to believe on this, but even if true I'm not sure why this is so upsetting to people...
Who knows what to believe on this, but even if true I'm not sure why this is so upsetting to people...
i wish macrumors ban the annoying samsung ads here
Given that they subscribe to a service that presents ads based on content on the website - that would be challenging...
People shouldn't find it upsetting or surprising.
But that has nothing to do with whether or not this site is full of biased people in either direction. They aren't mutually exclusive nor related in any way.