Apple's iAds Slowly Begin to Appear, Led by Nissan Leaf

[DavidLeblond]

Your facts need some intelligence, which they don't have. Developers are little people, and they don't take a crap without Apple leading the way and approving (requiring actually) every move.

Uh, no.

No one requires me, a developer, to put iAds in my apps. My apps currently have Admob ads. There's your intelligence, buddy.

BTW the "stranglehold" that Apple has over developers is greatly exaggerated. I've never had a problem, and they've only rejected my apps when I missed a show stopping bug... which I appreciate.

 

[Jetson]

Without Apple and the app developers YOU don't have that iPod to play with do you. Ever think of that?

Keep on sucking down that corporate kool aid.

I'm supporting Apple and app developers with my DOLLARS by purchasing their products, i.e. iPod, apps.

I DO NOT want to be bombarded by ads, nor have my whereabouts saved forever in a bunch of databases, nor have my profile built up in the doubleclick.com big brother site.

If you think you are going to get any quality "free" apps because of advertising, well I've got a bridge in Alaska for sale.

And for your information, it's MORE than likely that ads will force their way into paid-for apps. They did it with my PAID FOR PacMan app, but only because of the enormous outcry did they remove the ads - this time.

 

[gceo]

I would rather inspect each car individually then once i have a short list compare the costs for service parts at the local garages.

I love it when people make outrageous claims to make a point.

You're doing it wrong. Use edmunds.com True Cost to Own feature. (but you might have to suffer through a banner ad)

 

[wovel]

Who in their right mind thinks this is a good thing???

Me

The fact that Apple not only has some of you accepting this...but excited about it and welcoming it with open arms...might just be the most goddamn pathetic thing I've seen in an age. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

These are ADS! Why are you people happy...about ADS?! Just because Jobs says these are swell, Apple got you acting like trained circus seals, just mindlessly clapping away.

Spending a brief moment glancing at an ad allows me to save my money and allows the developer to get paid. Is 5 minutes of advertising worth 99 cents, no (not for me anyway). Is having an ad just sitting on the bottom of the screen worth 99 cents. Sure, why not.

If I haven't a choice, I'd prefer dumb, boring ones that are easy to ignore. Not some full-page ad for a ****** nissan car that I'll never want to buy.

The ad is only full page if you click it.

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!

Google makes almost all their money on ads alone. So do TV networks. So I guess the answer is lots!

I read no consumer reports, no personal recommendations from family/friends, no review site, nada.

If i want a computer i go to the Apple website and order one, if i need food i go to the closest shop be it a butcher or supermarket, If i want a car i spend a good 1-2 months inspecting the various cars at the 20 or so dealers in town.

There will never have been an occasion when the price, discounts, sales person or any advertisements have been taken notice. I do not watch TV and for the most part ads are blocked while i am browsing, i will never use a comparison website.

My buying is direct and to for-fill the task i wish the product to preform.

You are unique

And the great irony here is that you have an ad in your sig.

arn

Lol, good catch. Free software but still an ad.

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.

Well the banner on the Internet is usually there to show you where to go get the information. There is nothing wrong with visiting different manufacturers to learn about their products and making your opinion. I have found many things I might not have heard of without advertising. Different strokes and all that.

 

[hobo.hopkins]

I DO NOT want to be bombarded by ads, nor have my whereabouts saved forever in a bunch of databases, nor have my profile built up in the doubleclick.com big brother site.

No one does. That's why you, the consumer, can chose to not use apps that are iAd supported.

If you think you are going to get any quality "free" apps because of advertising, well I've got a bridge in Alaska for sale.

I use plenty of free, ad-supported apps every single day that I enjoy. I consider them quality applications.

And for your information, it's MORE than likely that ads will force their way into paid-for apps. They did it with my PAID FOR PacMan app, but only because of the enormous outcry did they remove the ads - this time.

That's the entire point. If developers include iAds where consumers don't want them, then lowered sales will force developers to not include them.

 

[TogetherinParis]

iAds for big boys only

I found the cure for crime, drug addiction, and sexual perversion. Naturally, there is no way I can advertise my book on iAds (B0030MIG24 on Amazon). The Google effort is beyond Byzantine. Would somebody check out my book online and offer to advertise it for me on a commission basis or as a service to humanity (free)? I get $7.00 per sale ($10) in the US, $3.50 overseas. I'd like to get $25.00 per person cured of crime, cocaine addiction, or sexual perversion as a royalty for using my protocol. We can close the prisons and fire most of the police. We can also win the crazy Afghan war with pheromones. I have 1000X's the average I.Q. (I modeled for 'Good Will Hunting' -- both Star Wars and Avatar were my ideas), so getting these sociopathy problems fixed seems to be taking an inordinate time interval. One dose cures and success rate is 100% for 95 open anecdotal trials. Help with double-blind/cross-over clinical trials, anybody? ANYBODY?

 

[LoganT]

I found the cure for crime, drug addiction, and sexual perversion. Naturally, there is no way I can advertise my book on iAds (B0030MIG24 on Amazon). The Google effort is beyond Byzantine. Would somebody check out my book online and offer to advertise it for me on a commission basis or as a service to humanity (free)? I get $7.00 per sale ($10) in the US, $3.50 overseas. I'd like to get $25.00 per person cured of crime, cocaine addiction, or sexual perversion as a royalty for using my protocol. We can close the prisons and fire most of the police. We can also win the crazy Afghan war with pheromones. I have 1000X's the average I.Q. (I modeled for 'Good Will Hunting' -- both Star Wars and Avatar were my ideas), so getting these sociopathy problems fixed seems to be taking an inordinate time interval. One dose cures and success rate is 100% for 95 open anecdotal trials. Help with double-blind/cross-over clinical trials, anybody? ANYBODY?

Mind=Blown

 

[macfan881]

The fact that Apple not only has some of you accepting this...but excited about it and welcoming it with open arms...might just be the most goddamn pathetic thing I've seen in an age. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

These are ADS! Why are you people happy...about ADS?! Just because Jobs says these are swell, Apple got you acting like trained circus seals, just mindlessly clapping away.

Not everyone has a freaking panick attack when they see a ad seriosuly I've just grown to be used to them some of you guys need to rethink whats important if you think ads are the worst thing ever.

 

[PeterQVenkman]

Bandwidth (and data limit) hogging ads on iPhone platforms integrated into the OS, and limited to advertisers with multi-million dollar budgets! Yay!

 

[macfan881]

Bandwidth (and data limit) hogging ads on iPhone platforms intergrated into the OS! Yay!

Again if your worried about ads taking up bandwith dont click on them plain and simple

 

[Cabbit]

Bandwidth (and data limit) hogging ads on iPhone platforms integrated into the OS, and limited to advertisers with multi-million dollar budgets! Yay!

This was true before iAds, these are just provided by Apple instead of someone else.
If the ads are of no interest to you buy the paid version as i do.

 

[azazel-]

Not everyone has a freaking panick attack when they see a ad seriosuly I've just grown to be used to them some of you guys need to rethink whats important if you think ads are the worst thing ever.

Thinking they are the worst thing ever? No.

Thinking they are just swell because Jobs tells me these types of ads are great?

No again.

Really...people in this thread are saying they are 'excited' to see them...that's downright pathetic.

I'm not upset by ads. At all. What I find troubling, are comments such as this;

Sweeet looks good!

The iAds look great! Awesome!

So you want dumb, boring ads instead of fun, interesting ones?

I just downloaded the app only for the ads...

Ads are a necessary evil, fine. But getting all excited about them? Come the **** on...look at yourselves. Apple couldn't have more perfect consumers even if they grew you guys in vats!

 

[ten-oak-druid]

So does every app that uses iad give you the option of paying for it if you don't want ads? Or are some apps iad only?

 

[Reason077]

I found the cure for crime, drug addiction, and sexual perversion. Naturally, there is no way I can advertise my book on iAds (B0030MIG24 on Amazon). The Google effort is beyond Byzantine. Would somebody check out my book online and offer to advertise it for me on a commission basis or as a service to humanity (free)? I get $7.00 per sale ($10) in the US, $3.50 overseas. I'd like to get $25.00 per person cured of crime, cocaine addiction, or sexual perversion as a royalty for using my protocol. We can close the prisons and fire most of the police. We can also win the crazy Afghan war with pheromones. I have 1000X's the average I.Q. (I modeled for 'Good Will Hunting' -- both Star Wars and Avatar were my ideas), so getting these sociopathy problems fixed seems to be taking an inordinate time interval. One dose cures and success rate is 100% for 95 open anecdotal trials. Help with double-blind/cross-over clinical trials, anybody? ANYBODY?

Wow! This book is amazing. I've purchased several copies for myself and my friends already. As someone who does occasionally suffer from sexual perversion, I found Chapter 9 particularly enlightening. The entire book is fantastic however, everyone should read it - it will change your life!

It is regrettable however that this book is only available on Kindle. A book with revelations of this magnitude should not stay with one publisher, it needs to be available on iBooks and elsewhere. Perhaps the author should consider using iAds not as a means to promote the book, but as a means to reduce the cost and thus get it out to the wider audience which it richly deserves.

 

[FSMBP]

Again if your worried about ads taking up bandwith dont click on them plain and simple

Do you know for a fact that they download once clicked on or just when the app is running (when the user has no control)?

Because with 200MBs, I don't need 5 or 6MB iAds eating up my data (especially if I didn't click on them).

 

[kmcrawford]

Do you know for a fact that they download once clicked on or just when the app is running (when the user has no control)?

Because with 200MBs, I don't need 5 or 6MB iAds eating up my data (especially if I didn't click on them).

Read the excerpt from below:

Those who have experimented with prototypes, however, say the experience is truly good. Because the ads load when a phone or device is synched, there is no download time when a user clicks on an ad. The targeting is also particularly rich, including location and iTunes preferences. Apple recently changed its terms of service to allow users to opt out of ad targeting.

From article: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=144670

 

[AppleRules]

Thinking they are the worst thing ever? No.

Thinking they are just swell because Jobs tells me these types of ads are great?

No again.

Really...people in this thread are saying they are 'excited' to see them...that's downright pathetic.

I'm not upset by ads. At all. What I find troubling, are comments such as this;



Ads are a necessary evil, fine. But getting all excited about them? Come the **** on...look at yourselves. Apple couldn't have more perfect consumers even if they grew you guys in vats!

This is an Apple fan site WTF do you expect. What are you even doing here if you're offended by these comments? Don't Android fans have forums of their own?

 

[arn]

So does every app that uses iad give you the option of paying for it if you don't want ads? Or are some apps iad only?

It's up to the developer.

arn

 

[Ries]

That thing better have a button to disable all mobile data connections, the roaming price for my country in ie. USA is 17dollar pr megabyte.... if it starts grabbing ads behind my back, it will be costly...

 

[arn]

That thing better have a button to disable all mobile data connections, the roaming price for my country in ie. USA is 17dollar pr megabyte.... if it starts grabbing ads behind my back, it will be costly...

um... let me introduce you to iOS 4

 

[Ries]

um... let me introduce you to iOS 4

They don't sell iphone4 here for another three weeks, so how should i know?

 

[alhedges]

This is an Apple fan site WTF do you expect. What are you even doing here if you're offended by these comments? Don't Android fans have forums of their own?

It's fine if ads make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But I don't see what that has to do with liking Apple products.

Oh, that's because it has nothing to do with liking Apple products.

 

[azazel-]

It's fine if ads make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But I don't see what that has to do with liking Apple products.

Oh, that's because it has nothing to do with liking Apple products.

Apparently, only brain-dead marketing drones that live to be spoon-fed content are allowed to like Apple products now. You know, even the actual physical products that used to be the priority at Apple, before they started branching out into areas like this so they could turn their fans into good little content consumers.

Blu-ray is bad...Flash is bad...admob ads...those are bad too. All media must come from Apple, because they love you, and have your best interests at heart.

Honest. Just make sure you don't hold your phone wrong as you gobble up that content.

 

[vidyashankara]

If I haven't a choice, I'd prefer dumb, boring ones that are easy to ignore. Not some full-page ad for a ****** nissan car that I'll never want to buy.

You just sound like you hate apple. probably because you just cant get your hands on one... maybe you cant afford it... its like the time kids who cant land a date on prom night keep talking about how stupid prom night is... dude, if you cant be a part of something, its ok to watch from far away. dont spoil it for everyone.

 

[jeznav]

Hmm. I never see ads..........because I paid for them.

Except one time I downloaded Charadium Free. Fun game, but every intersession popped up a full screen ad. It was very annoying to have that happen during online play. So I just paid for it, ad free.

$.99 Paid app = ad free
Free app = with ads