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I’ll use google maps then if it’s ads. Less premium and less differentiation is bad branding Apple.
Yes but jobs still highlighted it as a positive thing or else he wouldn’t have put it on the update boardMaps on iOS 3.1 was Google, not Apple. Apple Maps came out in iOS 6 and was derided for missing numerous features Google Maps had. But it was not an ad supported application.
Google expands ads for smartphones, adds to iPhone Maps app
On Monday, Google announced that its AdSense for Mobile advertising service has been optimized for smartphones like the iPhone. In a post to its official blog, the company noted that 177 million smartphones are predicted to sell in 2009, meaning mobile access to the Internet is a significantly growing market.
"This feature offers publishers the ability to run larger AdSense ads visible on high-end phones," Google said of its newly optimized offering. "Before this launch, AdSense mobile publishers were only eligible to serve smaller text and image ads on their website content."
The system works based on a JavaScript code that sites can implement for their mobile sites. The modified AdSense listing is optimized for mobile phones to reduce latency and will allow various sizes.
Larger AdSense ads are also enabled by default, as Google detects whether the user is browsing with a high-end smartphone.
Google expands ads for smartphones, adds to iPhone Maps app | AppleInsider
In addition to debuting new AdSense capabilities for smartphones, Google has quietly inserted advertisements next to search results in the iPhone OS 3.1 Maps application.appleinsider.com
The complete irony that the same people saying nonsense like “ Apple customers will defend anything”…Maps on iOS 3.1 was Google, not Apple. Apple Maps came out in iOS 6 and was derided for missing numerous features Google Maps had. But it was not an ad supported application.
Google expands ads for smartphones, adds to iPhone Maps app
On Monday, Google announced that its AdSense for Mobile advertising service has been optimized for smartphones like the iPhone. In a post to its official blog, the company noted that 177 million smartphones are predicted to sell in 2009, meaning mobile access to the Internet is a significantly growing market.
"This feature offers publishers the ability to run larger AdSense ads visible on high-end phones," Google said of its newly optimized offering. "Before this launch, AdSense mobile publishers were only eligible to serve smaller text and image ads on their website content."
The system works based on a JavaScript code that sites can implement for their mobile sites. The modified AdSense listing is optimized for mobile phones to reduce latency and will allow various sizes.
Larger AdSense ads are also enabled by default, as Google detects whether the user is browsing with a high-end smartphone.
Google expands ads for smartphones, adds to iPhone Maps app | AppleInsider
In addition to debuting new AdSense capabilities for smartphones, Google has quietly inserted advertisements next to search results in the iPhone OS 3.1 Maps application.
Are the exact same people that will defend Steve Jobs tooth and nail, coming up with the most wild ideas about how he was “ for the customer only” and “ would never let an advertisement in one of his operating systems”.
The direct evidence to the contrary is met with “well um… that was iOS 3 and google providing the data then so it was Okay”. Or “well iAds was um… it just didn’t exist. Let’s ignore it and pretend it didn’t exist. It didn’t exist. It totally didn’t. Jobs would never. He was perfect. Tim Cook Bad!!!”
Despite the fact that the Google maps and YouTube apps on the iPhone were both designed, developed and maintained by Apple.
As for iAd, not only did it very much exist, but it was literally, no exaggeration, introduced as one of the top eight consumer features of the iPhone 4.
It was literally introduced as a feature. A benefit. A reason you would want to purchase the iPhone 4. For third-party advertisements.
He is, with no exaggeration, saying that one of the benefits of the iPhone 4 was the embedded Apple provided advertisements within third-party applications.
Why are we talking about Steve?
I feel like I'm always being told on here that we need to not talk about "What Steve would have done"
I can't speak for others, but I'm not ok with Apple doing ADs now, or then ... or ever
I find it objectively gross -- always have
I feel like I'm always being told on here that we need to not talk about "What Steve would have done"
I can't speak for others, but I'm not ok with Apple doing ADs now, or then ... or ever
I find it objectively gross -- always have
You will probably find that the people who say jobs would never do that or it was so much better where probably people that either never had an iPhone when he was alive or trying to rewrite history
If they expand the DCE to a lot more places, I'm ok with ads as the tradeoff. Otherwise, I'm using another map service (most likely Waze).
That was for in-app ads as a way for developers to monetize their apps, not ads in the UI itself. Apple apps or websites never had ads until well after Jobs died.
In fact, when Steve introduced iCloud (the last product he introduced before he passed), he said while running down the features of iCloud - "No ads. We use these products ourselves, and we don't like ads - so we can't get there"
Yes, iAds existed at the time. That's not a smoking gun, LOL.
How does that saying go “their pissing on us and telling us it’s rain”.
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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Pretty much.
The same people that will blast apple for having terrible software today, while ignoring all of the previous issues that very much have always existed.
My problem is definitely the double standard.
People will throw tons of blame and anger towards Tim Cook and the current executives, while completely ignoring examples of Steve Jobs acting in the same way.
It’s basically revisionist history that Steve Jobs was a saint who ran Apple basically like a charity where they would release the most innovative devices with no bugs, no ads, no catches for prices that would just blow you away with how affordable they were when… it is just not the case.
Steve pushed for profits just as much as Tim did, because that was literally his job.
He wasn’t charitable towards the consumers, he was just as a ruthless as Apple is today. He just had an excellent way of presenting it.
iAd literally being the perfect example, he introduced an advertisement platform as a consumer feature. He made a car commercial look cool, he literally turned a car commercial into a reason to purchase an iPhone 4.
Literally, the only difference between them then and them now is they can’t exactly make advertisements look cool anymore.
But like everything in life, to a lot of people the grass will always be greener on the other side.
10 years from now, this place will be flooded with a bunch of “ John Turnis literally only cares about profits, I miss the days of Tim Cook when (insert random annoyance) didn’t exist and they actually cared about the customers”.
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Tim will say no to law enforcement in the name of privacy, but will break every rule or customer promise for the shareholders $$$$$
In general I love the overall Apple ecosystem and most of their apps, but despite trying multiple times I still like using Google maps much more than Apple's. And now one more reason to stay with google for maps though limiting the ads to just a couple paid search results at the top of the list isn't as bad as banner ads.
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Except for the fact that Apple Arcade is not free.
Apple Maps is, or as close to free as a built in app can be.
