Apple may soon bring more ads to your iPhone

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33 points·Tomte··10 comments

I cannot recall the number of times the “Apple is a hardware company, not an ad company” argument has been put forward to suggest that Apple will somehow behave better than Google.

I will pay for no ads rather than have a free product with ads.

> This could potentially allow publishers to place ads in areas within each app, or pay to get their content placed higher in search results

The two are very different. Im used to search results being tampered with. Ads in my books? No thanks.

Ads is what I can’t see on the verge because of adblocker. Promoted content is whole other topic.

I just switched to Apple because I thought maybe they didn’t play these stupid games.

I switched from Apple because I knew they played games they shouldn't all along.

I want to see evidence of this on my Apple devices before jumping to conclusions. So far I’ve yet to see an ad period. Apple, the worlds largest company, may do many things.

no thanks

> coming to Maps, Podcasts, and Books

None of which I use. I get my podcasts as downloadable .MP3s from the actual podcast website and play them in my media player. All my books are read at home with Okular. As for Maps, I only use it when traveling (which is rare).

Okay everyone, shit it down, kosasbest doesn't use these apps so this article is immediately irrelevant!

And also the bands he listens to only sell their music on vinyl, and the books he reads are only sold in artisanal shops after their type has been hand-set on letterpress printing presses, and the bindings hand-stitched!

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