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Apple Pauses Gambling Ads in App Store Pages After Developers Complain [Updated]
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A lot of developers would really love to do this but it's not a level playing field. Apple's App Store is built into the phone and won't host third party app stores. They make it very difficult to load apps other than through their own App Store and the continuous FUD put out by Apple about anything not specially permitted by them has persuaded much of the Apple market to specifically avoid such things.
I’ve always looked at the Apple brand as being “genuine.” Genuine hardware, genuine software, genuine service.
Apple seems to be more “questionable” than “genuine” these days.
I have some shares and while service revenue is of course good in that regard I want it to be based on things I stand for. Apple does many things I stand for, but this is not it.
It'd be nice of users could opt out of ads for games with in app purchases, so they only see ads for full games that charge upfront single fee.
I think this whole "let's grow our ad business to 10 Billion $" is the most serious blunder in Cook's reign at Apple because it seriously damages the most valuable of Apple's assets: its brand. The people who support this decision inside Apple are the wrong people for the company, they must resign, let them join Meta or Google. As for Cook: I think this is the beginning of the end for his time at Apple, too.
Actually these years I have been testing alternatives which are not necessarily limited to digital. Pen & paper, free and open source. But have to clarify I will not entirely give up digital as some can be good. Convenience should not be the only value in my life.
can the Digital Service Act from the EU please be enacted. I need an alternative store ASAP. Something FOSS Driven like F droid would be nice.
That is the beauty. You can ditch the ones that advertise.
Or use only a community driven one.
That's Tim Cook for you. Steve would've hated this and the past couple of years I really don't see why we pay a premium for Apple devices when we're headed towards getting the same experience as on the cheap Samsung with the ads in system apps. If you want to make bank on advertising or services at least make the devices affordable or have a device that competes in the affordable price range and I'm not talking about the SE because that's competing with the Galaxy S3 mini or something from that design era. The greed makes them come up with more and more ideas on how to get more money from us and that's going to become increasingly annoying as corporations can never have enough. A code of ethics is the only thing that stops them from doing things that destroy UX for money and at this point I trust Apple and Google about the same with that they'd both put ads in the sky for money.
That’s how capitalism, and specifically shareholder capitalism, works. Always need to generate an ever increasing return.
Choose the one you love the most. Like you choose your favourite oat meal brand. 😆
Apple has always been about using the user for monetary gain. That's the point of a company -- profit by selling something to people or businesses (users).
How realistic is that? If there is a customer demand for AppStore that has no ad ? Supply/demand? Market mechanics.