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iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification
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I love the analogy. I think in the not too distant future the hardware will be irrelevant. You’ll pay for a phone as a service
I would like to complain about the people complaining. sad sad people have nothing better to do with their lives.
Apple is making a percentage on all wallet transactions. Looks like that's not enough for some greedy ******* up in their management.
Apple: “an alternative wallet is not safe, it could be misused for unwanted push messages”
Don't worry. Apple will adjust the App Store rules (they did so when there were previous abuses by the company) and then everyone will be satisfied.
Don't worry. Apple devices will still be as overloaded with advertising as Windows and Android. There is really no need to be concerned.
The only question is:
Are you still defending the Apple corporation's monopoly? Or are some of you perhaps glad that—at least in some countries —the Wallet app now has competition and Apple can no longer get away with this kind of commercial exploitation?
Take it or leave it. That's what you are defending every day
Don't worry. Apple devices will still be as overloaded with advertising as Windows and Android. There is really no need to be concerned.
The only question is:
Are you still defending the Apple corporation's monopoly? Or are some of you perhaps glad that—at least in some countries —the Wallet app now has competition and Apple can no longer get away with this kind of commercial exploitation?
Take it or leave it. That's what you are defending every day
does junk mail bother you? That’s what this is and Apple shouldn’t be doing it via its apps
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I am totally stunned by how many people are just hand waving away this behavior by Apple.
This is the sort of thing I explicitly choose to continue to be an apple customer to avoid.
It doesn’t matter if it’s “just a notification” or there are “more important problems to worry about in the world”, which is always true anyhow.
Apple should not be doing this… period.
This is the sort of thing I explicitly choose to continue to be an apple customer to avoid.
It doesn’t matter if it’s “just a notification” or there are “more important problems to worry about in the world”, which is always true anyhow.
Apple should not be doing this… period.
I understand the pushback. Yes it’s one movie one time but unless people push back hard on this now, it will become a regular thing. This is not the Apple that anyone wants.
There probably IS an opt in, that was set years ago, but they just decided to use that access for this campaign. Frankly, I’m ok with it, but yes it could be a slippery slope. But, for example I got a notice about a month maybe two ago that NIKE purchases were going to be 6% vs. 3%, and a few months before that I got an Uber update about the cash back. I of course get notices of Savings rate changes- even though I took all monies out of savings a LONG time ago. So, do we KNOW for sure that there wasn’t some “periodically apple wallet with GS will send notifications of special promotions for Apple Card users and your accetance of these T&C’s is confirmed that you are willing to receive” blah blah blah..
Do people not deserve an article to highlight their misery? I am still waiting on the article concerning the outrage at the Nike promotion with Apple Card.
Your Smart TV has a few words for you. Otherwise I guess you need to turn off wallet notifications.
Cable TV says 👋🏼
Anyway as far as I know this is against Apple’s rules. 3rd party devs wouldn’t get away with it.
Riiiiiiiight, because those alternatives won't have ads. Ever.
This isn't the "gotcha" you're probably looking for.
I (normally) get none, because I have notifications disabled for every single app except iMessage and calls. I still got this, and I have wallet notifications disabled.
Screw that.
I'm knowingly invoking Godwin's law here, but apathy is the exact problem in both scenarios--people who are like "Stop being a whiny little ****, it's only this little tiny thing" and especially "This is so much less bad than all these other things". Why in the world should one accept a little bad thing any more than a large bad thing? Why should this be acceptable, full stop? Things only get worse from here. You do realize that, right? Absent a full-scale revolt by their customers, it only gets worse. Today, it's a single push notification. Next week, it's a full-screen ad you have to dismiss after restarting your phone. Next year, it's a 30-second unskippable ad to open up Safari.
You are inherently defending Apple by saying it's not an issue. What if Apple decides that, thanks to your decision to accept the "tiny notification," you are now opted in to receiving a new ad about F1 every day? Is that too much? What about once an hour, or once a minute? What about being forced to watch the trailer to open the Wallet app at all? Where is the line? Why do you equate not wanting a ****** experience, from a company who has historically differentiated by not providing ****** experiences, with anger control problems?
You two, amongst others in this thread, are why we can no longer have nice things. Society at large has apparently accepted that intrusive advertising is acceptable (witness the "necessity" for Netflix to add an ad-supported tier and its popularity versus a few bucks more for no ads), no matter what. It didn't, and doesn't, have to be this way. But it will never get fixed when you hand-wave away a company starting to creep down the ****** path.