"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way" - Steve Jobs
Not saying Apple isn’t vulnerable to the siren song if the ad industry and its relentless drive to ruin everything, but MS is quite far gone.
I find it hard to believe you dodged the App Store ads.
Open any first-party app on the OS (News, Stocks, Maps, Books, Fitness, Wallet and more) and every surface has ads.
Go to the App Store and search for something. The top results are always ads. Go to an app page and you will see more suggested apps at the bottom. Most of the store is sponsored content.
I have yet to go a few weeks without getting an unsolicited push notification asking me to subscribe to Apple Music, Apple One, Apple TV, Apple News, Fitness+, iCloud.
The freaking settings app has ads for Apple services.
The two companies are the same, the only real difference being that Apple users have blinders on.
What are you talking about? I’ve never seen an app that’s not on my phone already in Siri suggestions.
>In the News and Stocks apps, the display ads are no different than what you might get on an ad-supported website (see above). [...]
>On the App Store, display ads are currently shown in the search tab in the Suggested panel. Apple will also soon expand ads to the main Today tab and within third-party app download pages. Search ads in the App Store are a bit different: Developers can pay to have their app featured in results when a user searches terms like “car racing” or “basketball,” for instance.
It's also showing ads for the cloud service in the settings app and will create notifications for apple arcade and apple music.
You're either already a customer or you'll get ads, so yeah. iOS has ads for quiet some time now.
It's just as unnecessary and annoying as Microsoft shilling for their annoying windows drive and office
The search menu, all first party apps, app store, push notifications, even the settings pages all have ads, and the ad surface has been increasing with every update. The exact ad in this screenshot has been on iOS for many years. People who fail to acknowledge it or move the goal posts are heavily drinking the kool aid.
Maybe you could clarify what you were trying to say by posting this article? Are you suggesting that apple is engaged in similar behavior to the original post? That the quote about taste from Steve Jobs is ironic given something you took from the article? Did you just find the article relevant and really don’t have anything to say beyond its contents?
Yes. There's plenty of discussion elsewhere in this thread which explains it.
Microsoft is a company that says 'yes' to every feature request with no regard for how it comes together as a whole. "Everything and the kitchen sink" is not a bug, it is their MO. They don't shy away from it.
Says nanny. Sorry Steve. I need computer / OS combo to serve my needs. Not to admire. In my opinion with all their flaws Windows fares better and is more versatile for what I do. And Linux runs my business.