I have the News app deleted and I don’t have the “News” section in Weather thankfully so it must work.
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Weather App Gains Apple News Section in iOS 16.2
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100% deleting the weather app if I see news articles much less ads. Is Apple becoming the new Google? Circa 6-8 years ago?
It was showing on the Ventura 13.1 beta for example. So Apple is trying to see if they can force ads on us, in this example its for Apple News. see below.
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Another spot for Apple to place ads. I’m not usually this melodramatic, but this company is rapidly going to ****.
On its nose, this seems like a good idea and can even provide useful. Just hope Apple will give us the option to toggle it on/off. If not, then that's more like an ad.
I might as well just go to weather.com so I can have sensationalist ads and weather
Pretty much is. Probably generates click though payments.
Let me guess only for M2 iPads. Instead focus on the quality and stability of your software and give us something we really need, like an iPad calculator.
Expecting journalists to not sensationalise a weather story is like walking over to pat a crocodile and expecting it won’t drag you under.
News being inserted into a weather app is just trying to promote Apple News. Obviously it isn’t doing well. Taking up space in the weather app is annoying as hell, and the idea needs to be circular filed and the weenie whose idea it was made to stand outside in the weather for a full week.
Apple, if your News app isn’t popular, just trash it.
Because News is a thinly veiled app platform. All the decent articles are already accessible elsewhere, and the actual ads are ridiculous. Most of the "news" is just clickbait listicles.
This will almost certainly still show up, and it will take you to the App Store to download the News app. The entire point of this is to try to drive traffic to News, Apple's worst service.
The only weather source that's accurate for my location is AccuWeather, and their app is the worst. The Apple weather app does not update frequently enough which you would think would be its one advantage. Apple apps don't have to follow the same rules about background processes that all other apps do.
I want weather. Not 'news' on weather.
That would be a very funny comment if it wasn’t that 99.9% that they’ve already been planning just that.
‘We’ve created an ad widget on your home screen - which you can’t remove - so advertisers can tell you about products that you care about.
Also when you launch an app you get a 2 second full screen ad unit before you see the app. Isn’t that great?’
But without the news part, how else are you going to know what to think? 🤔
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its always been about money, unless I missed the era where Apple products were free. Your take on the Forstall era is valid for graphical interface but not the business model of Jobs
Apple sweating the small stuff. No calculator app for iPad after waiting over a decade but we have news in Weather.
Apple if you’re reading this, how about:
- Sponsorship spots sold against wake up alarms: ‘Your morning 6am alarm is sponsored by mega-corp. Have a great day!’
- Ad units in Settings: ‘Sounds & Haptics is bought to you by Evil Corp’
- Photos will have ads inserted into your library. Think instagram video ads but cooler.
- Video ad units injected into iMessage conversations.
- Ditto audio 5 second ad units before and after phone calls & answer phone messages.
- Also I’d like to see Apple News stories injected into your email inbox between every 3-5 emails.
- Contacts could also have advertiser addresses added to people’s address books.l without them asking.