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Gurman: Apple Planning to Show Ads in Maps App Starting Next Year
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It’s the “we have you walled in” garden.
Again, I get it. You aren't aware how companies such as Apple have enormous insight simply through gathering usage data and how that drives customer satisfaction and thus sales. Again... I get it, you don't understand and thus disagree. That's fine.
"Also, this 10% number you've pulled out of thin air - is that the threshold for how many users it will take voting with their wallets before the maps thing is reversed?"
You're partially right. I puled 10% out of thin air (as an EXAMPLE) as that would undoubtedly get Apple's attention. Could be less, could be more. Again, an EXAMPLE.
Are you going to vote with your wallet and purchase a phone from another manufacturer? Or blindly believe Apple has no insight, giving you a reason and an out to just do nothing.
Buying Apple ecosystem because of “privacy”? How naive. And here, apple is showing their true color. Surprised?
First ad on App Store, now on maps. What’s next? Apple Music paid ad-supported tier? Apple TV with ads? The list can go on and on. Imagine Apple Store ads in your iCloud Drive.
First ad on App Store, now on maps. What’s next? Apple Music paid ad-supported tier? Apple TV with ads? The list can go on and on. Imagine Apple Store ads in your iCloud Drive.
When I use youtube I don’t mind one or even two short 15 second commercials at the beginning. I figure it is a free service so I don’t mind that. But what often happens now is I’m watching a 15 minute video and in the middle an ad will popup that is about an hour long. Do they really expect someone to watch that ad?
People are willing to pay a premium for Apple products and services because it's not Google or Android, but once the lines blur and both are closer to the same thing, I could see people ditch Apple. Which might not be a bad thing in the long run, with Apple being so popular in the US, it becoming lazy and greedier, it will be good for people to have a strong viable option to ditch Apple for.
You can skip the ad, you don't have to watch entire 1 hour ads. I don't think anyone will actually watch through 1 hour ads though...
All they want to do is annoy you enough, you are willing to pay them $9.99 for YouTube Premium.
First, Apple introduce App Tracking Transparency and making this is to protect users privacy.
Second, Apple making this big deal and users all just tap Do not Track. And making every third party apps who offering ads evil.
Third, Apple start to introduce ads on their first party apps.
If you saying Apple isn't use its monopolistic power to collect more ad revenue, then you need really think hard. Apple is making hard for third party app offering ads, and in turn offering ads on their first party apps. Who is to say Apple following same guideline with their first party apps? Who is to say Apple isn't abusing their grip on iOS to drive competitor away?
This is classic monopolistic behaviour.
You’ll never see that in a publicly traded company. Maybe in a private company where the owner may have some different priorities.
This is a horrible move by Apple if it were to happen. Horrible for the 1% of us who are the so called “Nerds” and understand (and appreciate) the real difference between the 2 platforms.
99% of the population won’t care unless there’s some post on the social media (talk about privacy 😅) that goes viral.
Inconvenient truth : for all the debate around online privacy, it’s still a niche topic and unfortunately most people still don’t care. And AAPL knows it. So they’re gonna make the most of it.
99% of the population won’t care unless there’s some post on the social media (talk about privacy 😅) that goes viral.
Inconvenient truth : for all the debate around online privacy, it’s still a niche topic and unfortunately most people still don’t care. And AAPL knows it. So they’re gonna make the most of it.
Ah, you’re the one they’re making it for. I wondered. I find it useless and unusable.
You can't customize the main page at all. And if you block a news source, it will just show up in a large square saying it's blocked. It's the most worthless app on the iPhone. You can have customized sources in a separate section, but it's annoying and cumbersome.
If true, they better make an ad-free version of Maps available to One members or something. But on its own, this is the most un-Apple headline I’ve read in some time. I’ll believe it when I hopefully don’t see it.
You know what would draw attention to businesses in Maps? Actually putting them on the map! On the right spot.