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Developer Earns Nearly $1,400 in One Day With iAds

Master Chief said:
Apple won't be pleased by your request – in your signature (Please support me by downloading my FREE App "Fake-A-Text!") – which may been seen as a request to click on iAds in your application!
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In my country it is called ADVERTISING!!! and is legal 😱
 
mdriftmeyer said:
Nothing should be free. It either is free or not free and that decision is the owner's decision to make.
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And the definition of "owner" is the creator's decision to make... and most of the shoulders on which we stand belong to corpses... leading to necrocracy.

Information is not naturally restricted; it is inherently free. The question is, "Under what circumstances may we artificially restrict information?" More specifically, "To what extent should we artificially restrict information to promote the progress of science and the useful arts?" If this is not an appropriate extent then information should not be restricted, whence is free by default. Put another way, it "should" be free.
 
uv23 said:
It still amazes me that people actually click on ads.
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Same here.

Not only are they making money for the developer, the user itself is paying for it in the long run via the data plan they pay everything month through their carriers. Plus it eats all that up. Gotta love it!

Apple: Let us sell you this phone that costs a premium. Now, go over to AT&T and get bound by a 2 year contract and a monthly bill. After that, we are going to start up a nifty little side business called iAds where we now send wonderful ads to your nice phone you just paid a premium for, over your data connection that you pay for every month that by the way, has just been lowered (if you chose) and is now limited to 200/2gb.

Yeah, that sounds great - for us! 🙄
 
AbSoluTc said:
Same here.

Not only are they making money for the developer, the user itself is paying for it in the long run via the data plan they pay everything month through their carriers. Plus it eats all that up. Gotta love it!...
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And it eats into your battery life as well. Say hello to being green Apple 😛
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
I just took a look at your app. It looks like a great concept 🙂 I have 3 questions about it.
a) can it alert when you leave an area?
b) do both parties need an iphone? Obviously for the "near" function you would (at least unless you made an android etc counterpart), but would my wife need an iphone to know what I arrived at work or could it actually text her?
c) just how terrible does this make battery life? If you had to turn it on each time you wanted to be tracked but then turn it off soon after u arrive at your location, then I could see it being too much of a hassle. On the other hand if you leave it on ALL DAY, I could see your battery dying in 2 hours. Maybe it pings your location for one second every few minutes?
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Thanks for checking it out.
To answer your questions:
a.) Yes it can. You can assign yourself to a zone to be alerted when you arrive and leave.
b.) Currently you both need an iPhone. The SMS Text is a good idea, I need to research if iOS will allow sending SMSs in the background.
c.) If you aren't using boost mode (available on 3Gs and above) you can leave it on all day and not notice any battery difference. Apple required me to put that warning about battery life.
 
BornAgainMac said:
Something like iAds should be implemented to make Mobile Me free. I tried my first iAd yesterday and it was refreshing not to be kicked out of my app and into Safari. And the ad was engaging too.
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Admob does worse than throwing you out of the app and in to Safari. They say they no longer use ads that automatically dial out when clicked, however I still see them. You can tell them apart because they use the phone icon in the ad, rather than the safari or arrow (open App Store) icon.

I have had it happen. The ad dials an "09" number here in the UK, which costs upwards of £1.50 per minute, I then got subscribed on to a SMS service, £1 per text received, and took two texts costing £1 each to un-subscribe. It cost me almost £10 for accidentally clicking on the ad.

The offending app was Xtreme Speedtest Labs. The ad is next to the benchmark start button, easy to press by accident, which I did. 😡
 
Arn, do you read that? Where is your iAd powered macrumors iPad app? You could be rich and retired by now! Just imagine, you could have a top end Mac pro and check Macrumors all day long....ah...you're doing that already.....never mind.....
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Mobile Me NEEDS to be free. If iAds are the way, that's fine with me. There is no way I will pay $100 a year or something that should be free.

Heck they can have free/paid versions if they want. They can divide it between iAds and no iAds, or just add more features on to the pro version. But a lot of the basic features (find my iphone, over the air sync, email, limited cloud storage capability, etc) should be available for free.

Maybe next year...
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You've got that right; I don't see how Mobile Me offers 'me' any more than the numerous free services out there offered by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and so on. I'd love to use Mobile Me but what it offers cannot be justified given the price they're charging considering competitors are offering more for free and more reliable.
 
alms said:
This developer earned $1,400 from serving adds to people who are standing in the dark holding their iPhone at arm's length so they can use it as a flashlight. Somehow I don't think the advertisers are getting their money's worth on that one.
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Because they can't see their screen in the dark?

You're so clever.
 
This is going to suck real bad. Now every developer is going to follow suit and we are stuck with annoying popup adds. IE: YouTube?
The developers will choose to use iads for the money and we are stuck with crappy apps too. I'll stay with the developers that charge.
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
Anyone know if it is considered click fraud to say "Please support my advertisers" above the iAd banner?
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It is in Google's handbook.

I assume Apple would do the same. Asking people to click on ads just to support a site is bad. Advertisers don't want to pay for that traffic. They want people legitimately interested in what they are advertising.
 
elppa said:
Anything that makes advertising monopolist Google sleep a little uneasy at night is a good thing.
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I agree with this.

While I am weary of Apple's approach to all of this, as it seems a bit off the mark given what I know about online advertising. Hopefully they can improve their product enough over time though, to bring a real challenge to google.

Unfortunately for now, it is going to be overpriced ads with advertising paying for little value, and likely massive amounts of click fraud.

You know what happens if you have a Google Adsense website and they just think you might be committing click fraud? They just shut you off, don't pay you, and literally lock you out. They do have an E-MAIL appeal process that is a waste of time in almost all cases.

Something tells me Apple is not going to take that approach.
 
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