I don't mean to be nitpicky, but Consumer Reports does not have ads on their website or in their magazine. Other than that, you're spot on.
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I don't mean to be nitpicky, but Consumer Reports does not have ads on their website or in their magazine. Other than that, you're spot on.
This seriously needs to stop with the ads you know how much money they are making just on ads alone. It's sick and unnecessary and misleading/corrupt. STOP it already or pay the consequences. No one likes ads!
No, I don't know how much money they are making, but since you seem to know, please, enlighten me.
member of "project mayhem"?
"we are the all-seeing, all-dancing crap of the world."
i guess you don't go to the movies either. or do you just show up at a theater and look at the posters on the marquee to decide... oh wait those are adds...
I would rather inspect each car individually then once i have a short list compare the costs for service parts at the local garages. An ad would only serve one brand and one car not the entire range of makes and models at each outlet.
A ad is designed to direct you to one brand or make, this is inefficient as it try's to distract you from the real cost and performance of the product and only focus you onto the benefits of the model they wish to sell.
I don't mean to be nitpicky, but Consumer Reports does not have ads on their website or in their magazine. Other than that, you're spot on.
you're absolutely right, consumer research is the one i meant. thanks
I am unable to see projection screens, when i wish to watch a movie i look though the dvd's that are in the genre i fancy.
That is true wile i have not use in ads for myself i have been taught advertising is important, though advertising is supposed to give direct information.
If iAds provided clear textual facts about the products they wished to sell and there full product range then they would be something of value.
Showing me a picture and a game is pointless, i want to see clear and concise information that sells products on its facts only.
LCD technology is much easier to see than projectors, with the added benefit of having text reading software.
Then you are simply trolling. Either you "get" ads or you don't. Seems you use them for your own purpose but talk down on their use by everyone else.
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Advertisers laugh at people like you (no offense). You think you're immune to advertisements. You're not. Why do you think every car manufacturer puts their badge on every car they make? Why do you think Apple sticks a logo on all of their products? Why do you think every product in a grocery store has a label on it or is in a box that has the manufacturers name on it? It's all advertising.
Why did you start buying Apple Computers in the first place? At sometime in your life someone told you how great they are, or you saw an add that made you say "I want that". No one is immune to advertising. Just because you block adds on your computer and don't watch TV doesn't mean that advertising isn't everywhere in your life. You may say that you don't let advertising affect your decisions, but they really do, you just don't want to admit it.
Also, regarding your comment about iAds being of no value because they don't present clear and concise facts: Obviously you don't understand effective advertising. Advertisers couldn't care less about giving you clear and concise facts. They just want you to remember their product, they do that by making fun and memorable ads. There was a BMW add that was on a while ago, that I actually looked forward to seeing; that's what makes a good ad, not an add that presents clear and concise facts, that's a boring ad that you want to end.
-Don
Calm down you guys.
Most people will not pay for apps. This is a great solution that benefits the customer and the developer as well as Apple.
I'm not a marketing drone - rather I'm an informed individual who actually understands what iAds means. I don't like advertisements, and I don't think I've ever intentionally clicked on one inside an iOS application. But, I'm not ignorant enough to believe that the introduction of iAds does anything more than it does.
If you actually want to talk rationally, how about replying to any of the points I've made?
Perhaps it would be truer to say that i try to limit advertising or more to the point the way i find products is though different means of advertising.
As you say there pretty much unavoidable so i will be effected by advertising just not by those that are video or heavily image based.
If a company puts out a specification of what there product does and leaves it for me to find that is usually how i find the products i buy if i am unable to see the products in person.
Though these ads that are on banners and such only tell me basic stuff like the products name and a picture of it, that is not what i want to see i want to see a full product specification of that product and another dozen or so similar products.
iAds not aligned with ATT data plans
Why would I want to use precious MB downloading iAds now that my data plan is not unlimited. It seems like paying the dollar for a not ad supported app makes more sense than constantly using my data allotment to fetch ads.
Why would I want to use precious MB downloading iAds now that my data plan is not unlimited. It seems like paying the dollar for a not ad supported app makes more sense than constantly using my data allotment to fetch ads.
I am not trying to talk down advertising or bad mouth, i just have never felt adverts have enough information that i would feel compelled to buy anything from them.
I switched flash on there and the adverts on this page want me to buy a phone, on another site want me to buy Visual Studio and a further site want me to buy a 3D television.
This does not seem like it is targeting me with products i would buy, and also is only showing me a picture of the product. Why does it not tell me what the product does and why i should by it.
Believe me, the banner at the top or bottom of the app isn't going to use much data. Also, no one is forcing you to open the ad and download more data. Also, no one forced you to downgrade your data plan, it sounds like you had an unlimited data plan before. If an ad makes you go over your data limit, let us know. Also let us know when you see a pig flying, because that will happen when an ad pulls down so much data that it really effects you.
-Don
Without Apple and the app developers YOU don't have that iPod to play with do you. Ever think of that?
Listen to this FACT for one second: Apple does not put ads in applications. Developers do. Quit blaming Apple for ads, they aren't at fault. Apps were NOT free before ads, because ads have always existed in free applications. This has been true since the App Store's inception.