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Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

mjs916 said:
It’s probably a necessary expense to them. Like an insurance premium. Main difference being only one of those is paid w/ hopes it gets used.




The amount of complaints I hear about Waze (route selection and accuracy) has kept me from going back there.
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I realize you can customize it, but Waze just has way too many things going on, on screen, for my ADD riddled mind.
 
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iMac The Knife said:
I'm getting Ad'ed out. I honestly don't understand how these ads make money. Whenever I see any sort of pop-up ad or an ad anywhere where I don't want to see one (which is almost everywhere), I just get pissed at the company the ad is for. I don't buy anything from these types of ads. Do people really see adds in apps and actually buy whatever they are peddling? If so, that is sad. Don't do that, and we will eventually see less of them.
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It is becoming exhausting: in just the last two months we’ve seen plans for adverts on our fridges, cars when idle at traffic lights, smart home displays. Searching in the app store on iPhone is already annoying when it gives a top result which in no way responds to the search term.

I think I need to accept that the Apple which put its user’s experience first is gone. Which I guess, in a way, in freeing: it removes some of the inertia against looking elsewhere.
 
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woolypants said:
"Peak Apple" is always a good way to tell people your age without telling people your age.

The best way forward is to split Apple into eras:
  1. Jobs #1.
  2. Wilderness.
  3. Jobs #2.
  4. Cook.
And honestly, I can easily give you Peak Apple for #1, #2, and #3. But I just don't know what it is for #4. I can think of times like the launch of the Apple Watch, but S0 was so flawed and took literally years to become mature. Ditto Apple Vision (if you Google it, the top results mostly involve words like "fail").

I think the Cook era has been... Chequered. A curate's egg. Certainly interesting times.

Profits wise, it's been insane. Product wise... Ah, it's not anywhere near as clear-cut. Arguably, you could say that it was Ive who did much of the heavy lifting. But I suppose kudos to Cook for keeping the boat sailing for so long, and so well. Others could've just sunk it by their arrogance, as in the Wilderness era.
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Cook's peak was ARM. We got professional grade machines back after Ive ruined them.

Edit: I'm old enough to have used a NeXTstation. I am happy I get my Unix / NeXT / RISC stuff back. That is all :)
 
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If it's done similar to the App Store it's fine I guess. Added benefit might also be that businesses start caring more about Apple Maps and actually take ownership over their listings and updating them. I wish the one thing Apple would do with Maps is to reward user contributions.
 
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One of the main reasons prefering macOS over Windows is NO ADS, no pushy shiny stuff!
If they are forcing this to their users... why pay a premium anymore?
 
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DMG35 said:
Clearly there is never enough money for Apple. They are moving more and more to the Google model every year.
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I don’t know where my breaking point is, if it’s like Apple News ads it will edge in that direction, if it’s like Apple News sponsored ‘articles’ or in the App Store, I think it would be ok. As far as google-like behavior, so long as they’re not lapsing on privacy like-google, they’ll remain my preferred product.

appledos said:
Inevitably this will drive more traffic to restaurant and service chains and away from the local small businesses that already struggle to compete. It's sad to see Apple stacking the deck against its own users.
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Maybe, local small business is possibly going to benefit. When you “google” it, the big names flood the results, but a map is a physical location that might be more difficult to edge out a smaller businesses placement or ads. But time will tell…
 
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Anonymous123 said:
This is infuriating. I hate ads and I don’t want them in what is supposed to be a premium product.
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No problem. Deltete the Apple Maps app and install Google Maps or whatever alternative you wish. I fail to see how an included App on iOS that comes with the iPhone is degrading the premium-ness of the phone because it has a few ads in search results. Even if you do feel this way, just delete the app and go with one you think does enhance your experience.

Are you saying that you would not purchase future iPhone because it might contain one or two included apps you have no use for? Put another way I doubt anyone would buy an iPhone because it did include Apple Maps.
 
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As annoying as ads are, if its put in right, it may not be terrible. Not hopefully it will be, but I guess its nice that Carplay is letting me know that the local grocery store is having a sale on Colon Blow.
 
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Define Ad’s? Static, popup, drive by, tracking, can they be blocked and the app still function.
 
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