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I don't get why people would say Airpush would never exist on iOS. It already does. I have seen quite a few app that use push notifications for advertisements.
by Kylekramer 15y ago
I don't get why people would say Airpush would never exist on iOS. It already does. I have seen quite a few app that use push notifications for advertisements. Not just scammy apps, but popular well recieved apps like Boxcar that hide it by labelling it App Recommendations.
Push notifications' promise always included ads. It is just a matter of presenting them well. It is like nagware. The annoying ones will be punished, the effective ones will be rewarded.
- ceejayoz 15y agoBoxcar hasn't sent me an ad via push notification in my two years of using it.
- Kylekramer 15y agoBecause you have not asked for App Recommendations. Like I said, it is about presentation. Boxcar does it right with an opt in service that provides value.
- VengefulCynic 15y agoExcept half of Boxcar's functionality is to provide advertising. That's a lot like saying "I don't know why people complain about the Huffington Post and all of their advertising when reputable sites like eBay are nothing but people trying to sell me stuff." And let's not get ahead of ourselves with the whole "push notifications have always been ads" - push notifications have always been with providing the end user with desired information. That may well come to include advertising, but up until this point advertising in push notifications has been an outlier at best.
- Kylekramer 15y agoOutlier now, but a pretty unavoidable future. Telemarketers and spammers were outliers at one point.
- pohl 15y agoReally? Ads that appear while the app is not running, with no idicator of which app is the culprit? I'm having trouble thinking of iOS APIs that could accomplish such a feat.