iPhone OS 4.0
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- MHDC0
Apples giving us Aids!!
- ukit0
FappleĀ®
- jfletcher0
from the Apple site... it will ship in the summer, and for iPad, in the fall.
- zaq0
I knew that finally they will have Flash!!!!
- You weren't watching the same event, were you? No Flash.monospaced
- no .. please.. don't disappoint mezaq
- Milan0
how the fuck are ads a "feature"?
- Yeah, I don't want ads popping up ANYWHERE on my fucking phone.5timuli
- Too bad.Mimio
- BTW I'm sure Apple is profiting from this ad system too.Mimio
- They're not enforced nor required. It's all at the discretion of the developer.monospaced
- yeah they don't pop up unless you click. apple's just providing a platform for devs to create more engaging ads with higher clickthrough.spifflink
- turnoverspifflink
- anyways, a ton of apps already have ads, man, as does all media ... get used to itmonospaced
- lukus_W0
Apple get 40% of advert revenue. Basically, it seems they wanted a way to profit from the free Apps.
@monospaced;
While they're not _making_ anyone display adverts - I think it would be pretty stupid to assume that the iPhone _isn't_ going to become completely saturated with highly targeted advertising.
Apple are also suggesting that developers subsidise their revenue by including advertising in their paid-for Apps. This, for me, is the icing on the cake.
I cannot STAND advertising.
I find most advertising completely and utterly base and vulgar - I mute the adverts on TV or pre-record programmes and skip the commercial break. I have an ad-blocker on the browsers / computers I use. I ignore as much as I can.
@spifflink;
Am I really harming companies by choosing where I direct my attention? I don't think so. I'm making an informed choice to opt out. Why should I be forced to watch or listen to something I have no interest in?
If I had no choice in the matter - I would not use the product, it's as simple as that.
Apart from the privacy / data-mining issues, the idea that no time or place is sacred - that every second of our lives is a opportunity for a company to convince us to consume their product - makes me livid .. it's fucking awful.
Apple want it both ways. They're trying to get a slice of profit from selling content AND from displaying advertising. It's pure greed.
I hope iAd dies a death.
- dbloc0
The apple is slowly rotting.
- SteveJobs0
see, i've said it before. he's building an army. Apple can take care of the hardware and OS end and make it all slick, shiny and appealing to the public. what they have never had, until now, are scores of developers adding value to their brand through content (apps and games).
by ensuring no outside force inhibits the army's way of learning, and developing (the Apple way), Apple can continue to profit off their hard work. and to incentivize all those hard-working ants, they offer iAds. screw the end-user - they've all been baited in and are brand loyal and sucking up that slick, shiny goodness with each new release. after all, it's business... no, war.
- utopian0
Still no Flash, fuck Jobs!
- monospaced0
lukus_W
I think your assumption that the iPhone will "become completely saturated with highly targeted advertising" is a little far-fetched. I don't think that developers want ads taking over their apps and interfaces, and that alone will curb the takeover. What Apple has done is simply created a way to consistently incorporate them better. Currently most apps I have installed include paid advertising and they don't get in the way.
- Well, I guess time will tell.lukus_W
- But come on, 'incorporation' wasn't the main aim here - it was the 40%.lukus_W
- lukus_W - you got it - as if texted phone spam isn't bad enough... now we'll get it with sound and colour! Yippee...DoktorDavid
- You've got to be an idiot to think apps will be covered with ads after this. They won'tmonospaced
- BusterBoy0
Welcome to 2008 you cocksuckers...
- twistedfork0
My 3G is sad. :( Oh well Im going to change it soon anyways, wont be an Apple phone though. Time to look somewhere else. :)
- at least you'll get OS 4 with the rest of features, my 2G iPhone won't even run OS 4ernexbcn
- ernexbcn0
the iAds they showcase on the keynote are fucking nice, all done in HTML5 and look fantastic, they also work miles better than current ads in iPhone apps because this new implementation is part of the OS and if you touch an ad it doesn't disrupt your app use, it just opens and you can close it and land back right where you were in the app.
- and because 99% of ads are google ads in times new romanephix
- "fucking nice" -> seriously? "all done in HTML5 and look fantastic" -> sounds like a line straight out of Job's mouth.lukus_W
- I watched the keynote and the3 ads they showed are fucking nice, it's my opinionernexbcn
- MILES better than current ads on the iPhone, which open a Safari page and take you outernexbcn
- lukus_W is a straight up hater. Seriously, he's jumping to conclusions as if Apple is making Ads a requirementmonospaced
- No I'm not monospaced - I'm jumping the conclusion that if there's money in it .. it will be done.lukus_W
- ernexbcn0
lukus_W those ads are optional, it's up to developers to use them or not
- And of course developers will if the tie in produces revenue... ffs, give your head a shakeDoktorDavid
- free apps will do it, paid apps won't because people won't buy them, when you pay you assume no adsernexbcn
- so I see no problem with that, most free ads already have SHITTY ads anyway, what's the problem?ernexbcn
- "most free ads" = "most free apps"ernexbcn
- finally someone who sees the truthmonospaced
- ernexbcn0
lukus_W dunno if you have seen the keynote, but really, the 3 demo ads they showed (created by Apple) are fantastic, and the implementation of them is really nice. If you decide to touch one, it goes full screen and have all sorts of subsections and features, even video, animation and sound. There's a big X on the top left corner you can touch if you want to close it and you are back where you were before.
Current ads on the iPhone are so fucking terrible, you touch one and it closes your app and takes you to a webpage in Safari, if you want to go back to your app you have to close Safari and load it again.
You can disagree with my views, but I'm not repeating Jobs words, I'm giving my honest opinion, and I think it's a clever and good implementation.
- +1monospaced
- The adverts were created to sell the advert platform.lukus_W
- maikel0
It looks like the kraken has finally been released... and it stinks O_o
- ernexbcn0
check them out
- ffs - people will manually load an advert? Oh, really... the read ads will be more than likely "click to kill" as opposed to "click to load"...DoktorDavid
- I don't know what your problem is, a lot of free apps have ads currently and those suckernexbcn