When was Apple ever “wholesome”?
I know the Steve Jobs worshiping and revisionist history is strong around here, but yeesh.
Are we even talking about the same company?
“Wholesome” has never been a description you could put on Apple.
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I know the Steve Jobs worshiping and revisionist history is strong around here, but yeesh.
Are we even talking about the same company?
“Wholesome” has never been a description you could put on Apple.
Services revenue is insatiable. It will creep into every crevice of Apple until the user experience is a shadow of its former self.
Every time someone complains about iOS you always get this silly comment if you don’t like it go to android
So now everyone has just got to accept every silly idea they they implement
I've finally realized that, for some people, there is simply nothing Apple could ever do that would make them be critical of Apple
Exactly what jobs said. When marketing takes over the company the company starts doing shoddy stuff. If this happens FU Apple, much in advance.
What do you expect from an operationally driven leader? In the industry we call this “wringing it out.” It’s gross but is the end game for operations.
Really? The opposite seems to be the case as well.
And yes, shocking revelation, the internet is full of different opinions…
Apple Ad’s crazy. The Apple News App, more Ad’s than news. The only good news so far, appears the Apple Ad’s are not tracking outside of Apple. Good chance the tracking Ad’s may appear. Wonder if one got into a crash while a Map’s pop up Ad was displayed while driving, would that be illegal.
Read this again, this is Gurman - why do we take what he says for granted?
He needs to make an income, so he comes up with things…
You know what? Maybe we need to have a worldwide recession. I’m tired of these companies viewing near-record profits as a failure. Every quarter has to be a new record. What’s wrong with merely having a good quarter?
This chasing of record profits every quarter is leading Apple down the path of ensh*ttification.
This chasing of record profits every quarter is leading Apple down the path of ensh*ttification.
It’s because Tim Cook lacks genuine creativity; he’s a bean counter.
Google isn’t selling our data for the benefit of everybody. They’re doing it for their own benefit, and because we’re a useful product to sell to other corporations. The party that derives no value from the transaction is the product being sold: us.
Because it’s not good enough for shareholders if they make even a dollar less than last quarter
If they start showing ads, then they are getting rid of something that differentiates them. Small profits upfront aren’t necessarily good for the long-term.
Apple is "exploring" the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Back in 2022, Gurman said software engineering was "already underway" to display ads in the Apple Maps app, but Apple did not move forward with the idea at the time. Today, he said Apple is "giving this notion more thought" again.
This time around, he said Apple has yet to start engineering work, so ads in the Apple Maps app might still be a ways away.
Ads in the Apple Maps app would not be the traditional banner ads that you see on websites, but rather paid search results. For example, a fast food chain could pay Apple to appear near the top of the results when a user searches for "burgers" or "fries." Many similar apps already offer search ads, including Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp.
Apple already displays search ads in the App Store, allowing developers to pay to promote their apps to users who search for relevant keywords.
Ads in the Apple Maps app would further boost Apple's services revenue.
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Apple has really two good arguments for not creating a search engine:
* It's extremely expensive
* It wouldn't be better than Google
Also a new one they could use:
* Generative AI is starting to take away search traffic
If true, then Apple has completely lost the plot on why people buy their products.
Google Maps is far better at providing information, but it has a bad UI cluttered with ads.
Apple Maps will never be as good in terms of information density, but people will give some of that up if the alternative is a better experience - which is currently is with Apple Maps.
But if they start showing ads, then the benefit of using Apple Maps versus over Google maps plummets.
Google Maps is far better at providing information, but it has a bad UI cluttered with ads.
Apple Maps will never be as good in terms of information density, but people will give some of that up if the alternative is a better experience - which is currently is with Apple Maps.
But if they start showing ads, then the benefit of using Apple Maps versus over Google maps plummets.
Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics the die hards who claimed apple would never do this do in order to justify apple doing the same thing they bash google for...
how about actually improving the app?! like getting rid of the big white block at the bottom the the display which sucks for OLED screens.
how about intelligent offline maps that still allow you to use a small bit of cellular data just for traffic, cams, etc.
maybe a music skip button option for the map screen.
how about showing traffic on all nearby roads like old garmins used to rather than just the route apple picks so you can make on the go decisions.
instead of these simple usability tweaks, we’ll get ads
how about intelligent offline maps that still allow you to use a small bit of cellular data just for traffic, cams, etc.
maybe a music skip button option for the map screen.
how about showing traffic on all nearby roads like old garmins used to rather than just the route apple picks so you can make on the go decisions.
instead of these simple usability tweaks, we’ll get ads
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This is a logical fallacy to me. You're just used to cheap products sometimes have more advertising than more expensive products.
I don't like ads either but I don't think buying expensive products make me immune to see them.
Expensive products should provide a premium experience otherwise they have no justification for being premium.
Was waiting for a post like this.
It’s going to be a while before and if this rumor comes true and if true what the implementation is like.