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iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification
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Maybe that’s it. I was just really confused how all that was somehow related to an ad 🤦♂️😂
Whoever approved this within apple needs to be terminated.
Apple are a multi-trillion dollar company, they do not need to stoop to this.
- Apple do not need to do this
- Apple's customers explicitly buy into their platform to avoid this
- Apple's customers will start to leave over this
Apple are a multi-trillion dollar company, they do not need to stoop to this.
This is a very damning statement -- and a very correct and depressing one.
Uh oh! Let’s go consult the EU to help out with this one, I’m positive they’ll have the answer on how to fine or ban this from happening again.
I haven't had this one but I have had plenty of notifications from Apple Music about buying their subscription... one isolated case is not a big deal, but they won't stop at just one, there'll be regular notifications just like the Music ones.
Isn't Apple rich enough? I guess not.
Isn't Apple rich enough? I guess not.
I just truly do not understand why anyone wants to dismiss this and/or minimize it.
We should not want the platform vendor to be doing this, and particularly in the case of Apple.
This is the sort of behavior many of us -- if not most of us? -- specifically buy Apple to avoid.
We should not want the platform vendor to be doing this, and particularly in the case of Apple.
This is the sort of behavior many of us -- if not most of us? -- specifically buy Apple to avoid.
A great way to respond to this is to go into your favorite movie review site and downvote this movie to oblivion.
This is all pointless theoretical discussion, Apple would never lower iPhone price in exchange for ads. At best they might lube you up nicely so you can do some mental gymnastics about it but you're gonna get fu*ked one way or another. This is the situation where you grow some balls and say not thanks, not even the tip.
Anyone saying “It didn’t bother me, it’s just one ad” are ignoring the reality that this is a test run. It only gets worse. If you accept one ad, they’ll add two next time. You have to stop it here because you can’t let the company get addicted to using these ads whenever they need a little revenue boost
Just look at Windows. Look at how it started and where it is now
Just look at Windows. Look at how it started and where it is now
It’s absolutely not OK. I don’t want advertisements for Apple’s products in my operating system either
The Court of Public Opinion will. Hopefully. This stunt is starting to get press. Apple has egg on their faces. This, if nothing else, will force them to rethink shenanigans like this. If their customers keep silent and shrug their shoulders due to the feeling of futility over it all, then there is only one direction this will go.
This reads as: "Things that don't bother me shouldn't bother anyone else. Because only what 'I' find to be important is all that should matter to anyone."
People are like "who cares, I just dismiss it anyways!"
Apparently they don't realize that quietly tolerating that is exactly how you get the garbage experience of Windows.
Do folks really want Apple platforms to be AD/Promotion infested hellscapes?
I still have that notification on my Notification Center, really don't mind this at all.
What if they start doing it more?
(that's what happens once it starts and is normalized and tolerated)
i don't mind adverts in actual shops, where you're expected to buy things, like the App Store, Apple TV app and iBooks store, but having them in things like the paid version of News, and the bottom of the Fitness app, just seems a bit greedy. But they are a business I suppose, and that's just the way it is
When you frame it like this, it’s fine. I suppose it all depends on how you view Apple. If they’re an evil, greedy, monopolistic company of masterminds who don’t care about product and just want money, then this is a horrible thing. If Apple is a impure but still decent company who does still like to make even more money (greedy could still fit) but isn’t out to ruin everything, then this is just a obnoxious way of trying to make some extra money while saving us a bit.
I have 27 items in my Apple Wallet and each one would be happy if they could pay Apple to be able to send me ads. Each and every item makes money by providing a service which I have the choice to include or delete. Sending ads would be grounds for deletion. I’m only waiting until iOS 26 where we will have the choice to reject such offers being piped through our personal virtual wallets. Remember Apple - Service revenue nor ad revenue.
Wait, you’re saying you have 27 cards in your Apple wallet and the banks you have those cards with would love to send you ads. Then you said if they sent you ads as in the bank, it would be grounds for deleting that card from your Apple wallet.
Are you under the impression that your bank somehow benefits from you using their card in Apple wallet vs using the physical card? I don’t think that’s the case.
Am I misunderstanding what you’re saying?