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> This is no longer Steve Jobs' Apple Remember iAds?

• ksec 5y ago
  >Remember iAds? iAds were what quality ads should have been, except the money and scale just wasn't there at the time. But iAds was never about target placement. Which is what current App Store Ads are about. And I believe Steve never said anything about Ads being evil. He himself worked with Ads agency in a very deep level to get Great Apple Ads out. Unlike the current Apple PR which is trying to shape the view that all ads are evil.
  • Grustaf 5y ago
    It seems you’re remembering things with rose tinted glasses. IAds were terrible, and appeared on top of the app while using it. Talk about bad “placement”. I personally think ads are evil, but Tim Cook doesn’t. They are limiting tracking, not ads themselves. And they’re limiting all minds of tracking, not just for ad purposes.
    • ksec 5y ago
      iAds were App Ads, not placement Ads. The same type of Ads there is appearing on top of my App when I play a free game. Compare to the Apps appeared on top of search engine are targeted placement ads. They are different type of ads and serve different purpose.
      • Grustaf 5y ago
        I know, if you read my post I also described how they worked. In app ads in free apps are some of the ugliest and most obnoxious ads, I really wonder bow you can prefer them to search ads.