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Gurman: Apple Planning to Show Ads in Maps App Starting Next Year
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I reported wrong info in a few shops. I'd say it took less than a week to get fixed.
They have been for years.
How will that change anything? Which maps app without sponsored places will you install?
This isn’t related to privacy. Sponsored places would relate to your immediate search query.
For you maybe. Works fine for me.
So, your position is that there should only be Google maps on the market, because they do great already?
Google maps which has had the same sponsored places for years?
This has got nothing to do with tracking. And no one is forcing you to use the app.
The thing about feelings, as opposed to facts, is that they are not necessarily based on anything concrete.Why do I have a feeling… through these ads Apple will be able to collect data and then spy on us
No. How will a sponsored place, showing up depending on searches, be “used to track users”?
Enjoy even more ads, I guess?
When did he say that and what exactly did he say? None of what you’re saying is making sense in this context. You’re not locked into the platform, as you can use a third party password manager or your brain if you wish.
No, that’s not what’s proposed in this rumor. This is sponsored places, which depends on your search query, not user data.
Also here in Denmark
Perhaps you’d like to offer something concrete instead of just mockery about something you don’t know enough about?
This is just conspiracy theory nonsense. Got anything concrete?
That’s great, but please realize that everyone is not exactly like you. People use apps in different ways. I often use maps to find the nearest store of some type.
Because shareholders expect them to. If a company makes 1 trillion in year 2022, shareholders would demand 1.1 trillion in 2023. And 1.21 in 2024.
Boo, Apple. It's one thing to have ads in a store where it's expected, but in a core app? Just say no. I wish there was an alternative that didn't have ads, but the other two big ones, Google Maps and Waze, both have them. I really don't want to use Google Maps because Google saves every location you've ever been to.
Google maps is better & more accurate than apple maps but I don’t like the ads, so I use apple maps.
If apple maps starts serving ads too, I’ll almost certainly switch back to Google maps as there will be no extra benefit to using Apple Maps.
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If apple maps starts serving ads too, I’ll almost certainly switch back to Google maps as there will be no extra benefit to using Apple Maps.
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and now Safari is on its way to join Apple maps and mail.
The apple groupies will say good riddance but one of the reasons I take my annual hiding from Tim Cook and the gang on buying new products is because I don’t have to deal with the peasantry which is too many ads. I pay for my clear space.
If it’s just going to be a Google heck I’ll buy a Samsung fold and be done with it.
If it’s just going to be a Google heck I’ll buy a Samsung fold and be done with it.
So…. The government is forcing apple to sell ads?
Seems like we will soon need a jailbreak called: remove built in iOS spyware
Well...looks like I won't be using Apple Maps in the future...
Apple plans to begin showing search ads in its Maps app on the iPhone starting next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
"I believe the engineering work is already underway to launch search ads in the Apple Maps app, and we should begin to see it be implemented sometime next year," wrote Gurman, in the subscriber-only version of his "Power On" newsletter today.
Ads in the Apple Maps app would not be the traditional banner ads that you see on websites, but rather paid search results. For example, a fast food chain could pay Apple to appear near the top of the results when a user searches for "burgers" or "fries." Many similar apps already offer search ads, including Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp.
Apple already displays search ads in the App Store, allowing developers to pay to promote their apps to users who search for relevant keywords. Apple is also planning to show ads in the App Store's "Today" tab and in a new "You Might Also Like" section at the bottom of app listings, while banner ads are displayed in Apple's News and Stocks apps.
Last week, Gurman said Apple is planning to significantly expand its advertising business over time. In his newsletter, he said that Apple's advertising division is generating about $4 billion in revenue annually and that Apple's advertising chief Todd Teresi wants to increase that figure to at least $10 billion per year over time.
Article Link: Gurman: Apple Planning to Show Ads in Maps App Starting Next Year
Apple maps is useless. It ends where Silicon Valley ends plus a handful of other cities. I see the level of detail on the castro theatre when some cities like Nairobi haven't even properly been mapped with basic street names and navigation yet. And now they're coming with ads. No thanks.
Scott Forstall got it wrong then and they never got it right.
Scott Forstall got it wrong then and they never got it right.
Not sure why you return to Google Maps if you don’t like ads since Google Maps is the progenitor in putting ads in maps. It’s like saying you don’t like vape because it has nicotine so you’re going back to cigarettes.😂
This is the thing. Apple should be focusing more in enriching the database first instead of pushing search ads.
What a bunch of scum bags. I guess the billions they rake in every year isn't enough. The whole appeal of Apple software like this is unbiased results. Tim has eroded Apple so much in the last few years its becoming unrecognizable to anyone that's been around since the beginning.
Maybe after a year of ad placement they can get more revenue to fix the bugs.
I've been using it for 6 months as don't want to use google maps - but I will go back to google if they are going to put ads in the maps ecosystem.
I've been using it for 6 months as don't want to use google maps - but I will go back to google if they are going to put ads in the maps ecosystem.
Exactly. Once Nairobi gets the same amount of detail as the silicon valley I’ll consider coming back.
That is not my quote you’re answering to…couldn’t recall I ever wrote that and when clicking back to my post this is what I wrote:
Feels quite far from the so called “Apple DNA” But then again there are ads in the App store which are clearly marked as ads.
Apple Maps has obviously improved a lot, and in many ways I think it exceeds Google Maps. But, where it does not beat Google Maps are in the most important areas, and that is in intelligence of searching for POIs and intelligence in alternate routes. Ask Siri (maps) for the nearest Costco and hear the "I found this one" and she shows you one that might not be the nearest. Google zooms out and lets me see the near Costcos with the one that is nearest at the top. Drive somewhere using Apple Maps for guidance, and stop following the route provided by Maps. Then be annoyed for minutes sometimes as it tells you to turn around to go back to the route it thought you were taking. Google almost instantly switches to an alternate route. Apple Maps UI undoubtedly beats Google Maps. And if the route Siri suggests is the route you want it is a fine product. But the application is dumb.
If the ads are not in my face, not targeted, and not done in a way that makes it harder to find what I am looking for then I am willing to see how it goes. But if the ads are any of those things, Maps/Siri's shortcomings will no longer be worth it.
For the last 1.5 decade countries around the world has been printing money (currency strictly speaking) big time. There are simply more dollar bills out there than stuff you can buy with it. That’s why we have inflation. First bankers messed with the equilibrium in 2006-2007 and now governments messed with it the other way by printing more paper money So now it’s pay back time.
I don’t really buy into this gold and silver the Mike recommends. Sure there’s a finite amount of it on earth which makes it a better currency than dollars, but what will happen to its value if people realize you cannot eat it, make weapons out of it or build homes with?
I think the only real “money” is land. People have to live somewhere and eat.
