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Pretty sure most people commenting here didn't even look at the post to see it's Apple promoting their own related product to their customers, not a third-party ad

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Oh we’re well aware. There’s nothing cheaper than upsell nags when you spent what you did already.

How much did you pay for keynote?

$1,999

The price is in the hardware.

So I can start saying that Apple's software is ad-supported now?

Considering you cannot run Keynote on non-Apple hardware, it cost "whatever the hardware cost".

About $5000 for the Mac book it came on.

Ads are Ads, people hate to see them whatever they are advertising. Especially when they already paid a lot of money to join the ecosystem, upselling to paid customers feels cheap.

An unwanted distraction is an unwanted distraction.

Nobody uses that to excuse Microsoft showing OneDrive ads.

Apple's own cross-promotions are so ugly and ham-fisted that I'm not sure third parties could do worse: https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-ditch-unsolicited-f1-ads-n...

Yes they could, they would, and you know it. They'd be serving you malware, they'd look even worse, they'd be for scams, they'd sell all the data they harvest from you to 1000 other companies, etc.

I don't think they can. People expect third-party apps to sell them stuff, but not their OEM.

Apple used to differentiate themselves by not using their OEM apps for ad space. Now they're copying the exact same "curated" promotions style that made Windows packin apps intolerable.

Yeh if we ignore all the reasons stated, they certainly can't I guess.

I looked, and I'm infuriated.

This is exactly the sort of thing that Apple avoided when it had strong management from Jobs. Now...

Does that make any difference at all? When Windows does it, people pop a fuse, but Apple gets a pass?

Pffffff..

Fanboys gonna fanboy; I'm reminded of the "switch to mac” parody animation by ubergeek from decades ago.

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