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> And Apple TVs? Well, that’s at least one company from which I, although perhaps mistakenly, wouldn’t expect that. And being proven wrong would probably make

• smoldesu 5y ago
  I mean, Apple TV still gives you recommended stuff on your dashboard. That's just a stones throw away from the FireTV default of playing a preview of whatever is recommended to you on your dashboard, and that's basically a stones throw away to just showing you ads. You can't delineate whether something is an ad or not just based on where it's being shown. Apple already sells higher ranking search results in the app store (Suggested Apps), so it's not a radically different change from what we have now. Really it just involves Apple combining autoplay and context-aware suggestions.
  • ElFitz 5y ago
    True. But the key difference, for now, is that I, again, perhaps mistakenly, believe that their interest still is to make something that serves my purpose well enough for me to want to buy more of their products later. That, in some way, their way of selling me stuff is to align their interests with mine (as long as I subscribe to their closed way of doing things). Which isn’t something I can say I believe of Facebook, Google, LG or Samsung (I believe they once even made their TVs connect to public open WiFis when you didn’t set them up. Makes me want to tear out that antenna). Even though it’s perhaps only marketing posturing; the App Store ads are starting to blur that line. And I could see how well targeted ads could be construed to yield the same effect.