🤣 I would be a millionaire if I had a dollar every time someone on MR said 'Steve Said this' when he never did.
Also the fact that, if anything, apple’s old products under him had more advertising than their current ones do.
When you first booted up any iPod, iPhone or iPad made before 2011, what was the first thing you saw? The iTunes logo. That’s advertising.
When you were absolutely forced, not optionally given the choice, but forced, to download iTunes to set up your device? What was that? Advertising.
When you opened up iTunes, and were met with the store, with whatever albums singles and artists apples was being paid to feature that week, what was that? Advertising.
Not to mention all of the extra stuff you were encouraged to purchase at the time to get access to basic features.
Easy to forget, but, Find My iPhone, for the first two years of its existence, required a $99 mobile Me subscription service.
Contact synchronization required a $99 mobile Me subscription service.
These days, we don’t even think about this stuff.
iLife and iWork and all of Apple‘s professional applications had to be re-purchased every year to get the latest versions.
So forgive me if some paid search results in Maps doesn’t exactly get me all worked up, Apple devices come with pretty much anything and everything you could ask for out of the box for no extra charge, and what’s being described here seems like it will barely affect the user experience.
This would be a totally different conversation if we were talking about like, pop-up video ads that play that you can’t get rid of, but that’s not what’s being described at all.
