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> Man how often do I hear "I don't want ads on my desktop" OS X has plenty of ads and nags for iCloud and Apple Music FYI. Fill up your iCloud space and it wi
by intoverflow2 9y ago
> Man how often do I hear "I don't want ads on my desktop"
OS X has plenty of ads and nags for iCloud and Apple Music FYI.
Fill up your iCloud space and it will ask you to buy more on every boot.
Siri on OS X was artificially limited to only play music from Apple Music but not your iTunes library when even the iPhone 4 could play music stored in its internal app.
- freehunter 9y agoWow, if that classifies as an ad I don't even know what the definition of advertising is anymore. I want a car that doesn't come with advertising built in. Every time I'm low on gas it starts dinging and flashing lights at me, and - can you believe this, people - if I refuse to buy any more, the car won't even start! And don't get me started on what happens every 10,000 miles... demanding I change the oil! I'm not a sucker, I won't fall for their advertising!
- addicted 9y agoUmm...those are the exact kind of "ads" people complain about for Windows (this is basically the exact same thing as the OneDrive info strip inside File Explorer).
- mattnewton 9y agoI haven't seen that- I complain about things like "edge is more resistant to malware" pop up when I opened chrome. Also low space notifications for a service I am already using would be different than advertisements for a service I am not using at all.
- likpok 9y agoThere are similar popups for Safari on iOS, and for Chrome when you use gmail on iOS. There used to be Chrome adds on the google homepage when you hit it with a non-chrome browser, but they didn't load for me when I tried it today.
- mattnewton 9y agoI have never seen a safari ad and chrome ads on Google's page used to unobtrusively trigger for outdated browsers, which is arguably more relevant to the user. The edge notifications look like a system alert and trigger constantly.
- plorkyeran 9y agoI get notifications on macOS telling me to give Safari a try on a regular basis.
- tbirdz 9y agoIf your car said "You're almost out of gas, stop by your nearest Exxon station and fill up!" or "It's been 10,000 miles, drive on over to Jiffy Lube for an oil change", then surely that would be an ad. It's an ad because they are advertising the iCloud service to you. It's not just that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space", it's that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space, buy more space here!"
- threeseed 9y agoNobody forced him to use iCloud. He chose to. It's an install option for OSX and you can trivially disable it as well. OSX runs just fine without it.
- freehunter 9y agoYou're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? My cell carrier sends me a notice every month that I need to continue paying them or I will lose service. Sure I can switch to another carrier, but if I want normal service to keep happening like it has happened in the past, I will need to send more money as per the agreement I signed. That's not an advertisement. That's a critical notification about a service you've chosen to use. It's not any different just because they offered a free trial.
- khedoros1 9y ago> You're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? No, I expect it not to try to sell me something at all. If I'm close to my capacity limit, it just means I need to clean some of the crud out.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoYour two paragraphs don't match up. It's not that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space." or "Your iCloud is running out of free space, buy more space here!" it's that they say "sign up for iCloud and store your X!". The first two are status updates for a service that's already being used. The last is an ad.
- seanp2k2 9y agoFwiw GM cars with OnStar spam you with nags to activate it, which is super annoying. The iCloud "out of space, manage or ignore?" Thing pops up on my watch, on CarPlay, and a few times a day on my phone. It's super annoying that there's no option to say "OK + I don't care".
- threeseed 9y agoYou choose to use iCloud and then consider it an ad when you run out of space and it asks you to upgrade ? You choose to use iTunes and then consider it an ad when Apple asks you to sign up for Apple Music which is the streaming service for iTunes. Very strange.
- JadeNB 9y ago> You choose to use iTunes No one chooses to use iTunes, given reasonable alternatives. It is the only way to interact with some iDevices.